▲ 686 ▼ Something's rotten in Denmark (lemmy.world) submitted 1 year ago* by ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 175 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 child) How would you say trump is like Hitler? Do you have to describe the Holocaust in few words within a long ass German style word? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons. One old way would be: "Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece" which means "They're cut from the same (bad) fabric". Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Ah yes! I understand the culture fully now! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) Easy. We often use idioms for comparisons. One old way would be: "Trump and Hitler are both 2/3 yards from one piece" which means "They're cut from the same (bad) fabric". Fabric was cut in an old measurement"alen" which was 2 foot or 2/3 yards, so simply stating the length would be understood as fabric, similar to how everyone knows that a 2x4s is a piece of wood and such. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Ah yes! I understand the culture fully now! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago Ah yes! I understand the culture fully now! permalink fedilink source parent
