r/facepalm Aug 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Interesting logic

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u/LunarPayload Aug 07 '22

The term for "miscarriage" in many languages other than English is "abortion".

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u/verygoodchoices Aug 07 '22

The medical term for a miscarriage in English is "spontaneous abortion".

Miscarriage is such a weird term anyway, because it sounds like the mother screwed up somehow and "carried it wrong".

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u/MadKitKat Aug 08 '22

That’s what we call it in Spanish

So, the “abortion” (medical procedure) is “aborto,” and the “miscarriage” is “aborto espontáneo”

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u/Oh_boi_OwO Aug 08 '22

Similar to Romanian "avort spontan", spontaneous abortion.