Noremac@kbin.socialtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are there universal words, and what are they?
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1 year agoHave you heard of Cockney rhyming slang? Take a word like “fart”, use a two part word that rhymes with it, like “raspberry tart”, then drop the rhyming part. That leaves you with “raspberry” meaning “fart” and no discernible connection to the old words this utterance/meaning pair came from.
So that’s where “blowing raspberries” came from? Pretty neat.
Mexican is a nationality, not a race.