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23 hours agoMy favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.
Just curious: do you take that as a reference to cancer as a sickness or actual crabs eating you?
In German the word for cancer (Krebs) is a homonym referring to both the sickness and a crustacean. So I wondered how this works in Danish.
(It is in English too, though the reference to crabs is only scientific and thus a very exotic interpretation)
It absolutely reminded me of the fight we have here in Germany about how to say what time it is.
Some rare people (like my beloved girlfriend) only really understand when you say something like, “four o’clock thirty”
The rest of us is fine using “half five” to refer to that.
But the real argument is in the quarters.
Some people just say “quarter past four” while others borrow the concept from above and say “quarter five”
The one group calls it “quarter to five” while the others stick to their concept and call it “three-quarters five”
It is a regional difference, but the groups are totally scattered and don’t follow typical geographical or administrative borders.
We’ve had meme wars over this.