VirusMaster3073@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat old thing surprisingly still exists?message-squaremessage-square258fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down10
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minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·edit-22 months agoBless you is such a weird way to respond to a sneeze though. Fitting for the clusterfuck the english language is tbh.
minus-squareclag@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoFrom ancient Rome when they thought sneezing was an omen and may dislodge and expel the soul from the body (Pliny the Elder, Suetonius, Homer).
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoSure feels like that sometimes.
minus-squareWIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 months agoStill weird that english uses it. Most other languages I k ow just say something about your health.
minus-squareSaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoWe know know sneezing can wake the small elf living in your stomach. According to RFK.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agoIn Germany we say (literally) “Health” as in “Get better”
minus-squareGoldholz @lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoLove the joke from (probably not actually) nazi times “Heil Hitler!” “Seh ich aus wie ein Arzt?” Or " Heil ihn selbst!" In english: “Heil Hitler” “do i look like a doctor?” Or “heal him yourself”
minus-squareKSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoThe english language has a lot of religious language hidden away in expressions For example, goodbye is just a shortening of “god be with ye”
minus-squareBarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoSeinfeld suggested: “You’re soooo good looking!”
Bless you is such a weird way to respond to a sneeze though. Fitting for the clusterfuck the english language is tbh.
From ancient Rome when they thought sneezing was an omen and may dislodge and expel the soul from the body (Pliny the Elder, Suetonius, Homer).
Sure feels like that sometimes.
Still weird that english uses it. Most other languages I k ow just say something about your health.
We know know sneezing can wake the small elf living in your stomach. According to RFK.
In Germany we say (literally) “Health” as in “Get better”
Love the joke from (probably not actually) nazi times
“Heil Hitler!” “Seh ich aus wie ein Arzt?” Or " Heil ihn selbst!"
In english: “Heil Hitler” “do i look like a doctor?” Or “heal him yourself”
Love it
I know. We do the same
The english language has a lot of religious language hidden away in expressions
For example, goodbye is just a shortening of “god be with ye”
“langaige”
Seinfeld suggested: “You’re soooo good looking!”