The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation.
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The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.
Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.
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The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.
Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.
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@CiaraNi As a Swede, this made me think of when this photo of a Swedish children's book made the rounds.
Get is the word for goat, and killing is the word for a kid, which resulted in this silliness:
There is a waterway near where I live called "the Bronx Kill" listen, buddy it's lovely. There are oysters and wetlands. It's wonderful. Stop being scared.
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@futurebird @Gulleko @CiaraNi Fresh Kills landfill is the one that got to me. I now know that "kills" is Dutch for stream so it makes more sense.
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@futurebird @Gulleko @CiaraNi there’s also the Murderkill River, which is just as redundant if you lnow Dutch because then it’s the Mother-River River. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderkill_River
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@futurebird @Gulleko @CiaraNi Fresh Kills landfill is the one that got to me. I now know that "kills" is Dutch for stream so it makes more sense.
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@futurebird @Gulleko @CiaraNi There's a housing estate near me called "Kill Abbey".
We don't know who Abbey was, or what they did. (Kill comes from 'cill' which Irish for "churchyard")
