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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

My favourite for life will always be kræftedme = cancer eat me - usually uttered in a sentence to underline how pissed off you are and how serious you are about being pissed off.

Just curious: do you take that as a reference to cancer as a sickness or actual crabs eating you?

In German the word for cancer (Krebs) is a homonym referring to both the sickness and a crustacean. So I wondered how this works in Danish.

(It is in English too, though the reference to crabs is only scientific and thus a very exotic interpretation)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    In Danish cancer is "kræft" while crab is "krabbe" so kræftedme refers to getting eaten by the sickness. Could potentially also refer to strength as kræft/kraft also refer to physical strength, but I'm pretty sure it refers to the sickness.

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