🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 years agoAnon introduces himselfsh.itjust.worksexternal-linkmessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkAnon introduces himselfsh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 years agomessage-square94linkfedilink
minus-square_stranger_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoI had a teacher in the 90’s call me a spaz.
minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoSpaz was very mild in the US and very serious in the UK. Meant kinda different things too. The opposite for extremity in these countries at the time was fanny. Meant completely different things.
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoFanny is a semi common forename in Sweden.
minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoAnd what does fanny mean to you?
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoIn Swedish? just a name, with unfortunate significance in the english language.
I had a teacher in the 90’s call me a spaz.
Spaz was very mild in the US and very serious in the UK. Meant kinda different things too.
The opposite for extremity in these countries at the time was fanny. Meant completely different things.
Fanny is a semi common forename in Sweden.
And what does fanny mean to you?
In Swedish? just a name, with unfortunate significance in the english language.