houndeyes@toast.ooo to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agoWhat did you call me?imagemessage-square67linkfedilinkarrow-up1846arrow-down15
arrow-up1841arrow-down1imageWhat did you call me?houndeyes@toast.ooo to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days agomessage-square67linkfedilink
minus-squareonipa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9·30 days agoIf you pronounce “fag” like a Dutch, a German would here “Fach” which translates to (school-)subject
minus-squareChristerMLB@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·30 days agoyep, or “field of study”, so if you study in Norway, students who study the same might arrange a “fagfest” together, and a skilled worker is often known as a “fagarbeider”
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·30 days agoSounds like there’s some etymological relation between the words (but a cursory search didn’t immediately give me an answer, boo).
minus-squarehakase@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·30 days agoThey are cognate: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fag
If you pronounce “fag” like a Dutch, a German would here “Fach” which translates to (school-)subject
yep, or “field of study”, so if you study in Norway, students who study the same might arrange a “fagfest” together, and a skilled worker is often known as a “fagarbeider”
In Dutch it would be vak.
Sounds like there’s some etymological relation between the words (but a cursory search didn’t immediately give me an answer, boo).
They are cognate: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fag