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minus-squareMissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoUnkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.
minus-squareesa@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSimilar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass. I’ve heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won’t eat.
minus-squareSpongyAneurysm@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoOh man. I have known this word as the name of an electronica music project for many years. Now I know what it means (never bothered to look it up. ) https://ugress.bandcamp.com/
minus-squareHyonoKo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoSo technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.
minus-squareWhiteHotaru@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoI know where you are coming from, but as a German calling someone „Unkraut“ has a very dehumanizing sound and was used by nazis to classify people they wanted to murder. Example: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/6SLYFZ3ZSAWYUJX26V4EXWYGFZBI7ZFH „However, it would have to become the task of the Inner Mission… to clear God’s field of this Unkraut“: women as victims of forced serialisation and “euthanasia” under National Socialism What happend next is posted daily by https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum So you might want to skip this.
minus-squareHyonoKo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoUm… Ok you might have saved me from a few faux passes.
Unkraut in German. Doesn’t deserve to be called a Kraut.
Similar in Norwegian: Ugress. Un-grass.
I’ve heard one definition of it that I like: The grass that your (grazing) animals won’t eat.
Oh man. I have known this word as the name of an electronica music project for many years. Now I know what it means (never bothered to look it up. )
https://ugress.bandcamp.com/
So technically all non-Germans are Unkrauts! I‘m incorporating this word.
I know where you are coming from, but as a German calling someone „Unkraut“ has a very dehumanizing sound and was used by nazis to classify people they wanted to murder. Example: https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/6SLYFZ3ZSAWYUJX26V4EXWYGFZBI7ZFH
„However, it would have to become the task of the Inner Mission… to clear God’s field of this Unkraut“: women as victims of forced serialisation and “euthanasia” under National Socialism
What happend next is posted daily by https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum So you might want to skip this.
Um… Ok you might have saved me from a few faux passes.
Happy to help!