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Mum wake up, new division just came through (feddit.it)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

Cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/1728128

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Bulgaria needs a third colour. I don't know what the fuck that letter is, but it isn't P nor F.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Probably it got on the red side because it is a "compound" word шамфъстък where the second part (фъстък) is similar to the languages of the eastern part.

[–] Land_Strider 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah definitely that. In Turkish, for example, the actual world is Şam Fıstığı ("Fıstık" as root), with literal translation would be "Damascus Peanut").

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

I think it's the equivalent to sh (as in sheep). At least it's absolutely not an F.