houndeyes@toast.ooo to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhat did you call me?toast.oooimagemessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1796
arrow-up1796imageWhat did you call me?toast.ooohoundeyes@toast.ooo to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareonipa@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoIf you pronounce “fag” like a Dutch, a German would here “Fach” which translates to (school-)subject
minus-squareChristerMLB@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 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·edit-22 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-up6·2 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