Post AdJ8n2FkIvUX6RUyBc by jameshowell@emacs.ch
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 (DIR) Post #AdJ8myf7edPhxzLBBY by thor@berserker.town
       2023-12-29T16:32:59Z
       
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       In our language, "lykke" means happiness.It sounds very close to the English word "luck"Our word for luck is "hell"Don't laugh.Slabs of rock found on a mountain are called "helle". They hell, i.e. lean or pitch, one way.So if it just happened to lean that way, this is luck.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ8mzRKlNyiNVtgKe by jameshowell@emacs.ch
       2023-12-29T16:36:53Z
       
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       @thor Luck in Old English was "hap." Happy, happen, perhaps, hapless. I wonder if hap and hell have a common origin.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ8n0HncJwh0ERa6q by thor@berserker.town
       2023-12-29T16:38:21Z
       
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       @jameshowell hell is from the Old Norse concept of Hel. The kingdom of death. Similar to Greek ideas of Hades and Styx.We say "helvete" when we curse.from "hel" as in the kingdom of death, and "vete" as in some kind of punishment.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ8n1PHRzWYTix4PQ by jameshowell@emacs.ch
       2023-12-29T16:41:21Z
       
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       @thor Sounds like Switzerland!Tip your servers I'm here all week
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ8n2FkIvUX6RUyBc by jameshowell@emacs.ch
       2023-12-29T16:43:48Z
       
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       @thor Notice I didn't go for the cheap laugh at the expense of the font, because I am a professional
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ8n38L1x9zpl2ZHM by thor@berserker.town
       2023-12-29T16:49:15Z
       
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       @jameshowell More commonly though, we don't call the Swiss that.Sveits = SwitzerlandSveitsisk = Swiss (nationality, language)Sveitsere = Swiss peopleSveitserne = the Swiss
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ8n3riJFSM6UGo0O by realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world
       2023-12-29T16:52:36.815925Z
       
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       @thor @jameshowell What do y’all call the cheese?
       
 (DIR) Post #AdJ92B85aGIuyc8c7M by thor@berserker.town
       2023-12-29T16:55:04Z
       
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       @realcaseyrollins @jameshowell OhostIt originally referred to fresh cheese, like Philadelphia cheese, since we didn't do solid aged blocks of cheese in Scandinavia originally.It has something to do with stirring up milk, or making a milk soup.