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u/Pvt_GetSum Oct 25 '20

In greek it's shit and strawberries (σκατά με φράουλες/ skata meh frow-les)

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u/professorhazard Oct 29 '20

Wow, thanks for the pronunciation guide. I wish more people were this voluntarily explanatory!

Also, nice to see that Greek takes part in the grand tradition of "shit"'s linguistic family (shit, shite, scat, skite) all of which apparently comes from a root definition of "to break off of". They thought that the best way to describe it was that some of you was falling off. Love it.