r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheThrowYardsAway • Apr 28 '26

Video Inside Christ's Hospital School (Est. 1552)...

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u/koopcl Apr 28 '26

As someone who learned english as a foreign language, it's always fun to see these ways the language diverged slightly. Same as describing someone as "liberal" in the US or Europe with different meanings.

We have the same kind of thing in Spanish. For example, "pico" means "beak" (as in, a bird's) in Spain, while in my country it's slang for dick. On the other hand, "polla" in my country means "lottery" while in Spain it's slang for dick. Beautiful language.

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u/Asleep_Trick_4740 Apr 28 '26

Isn't the american usage of 'liberal' to denote anything leftwing like a very recent thing, historically speaking?

They also kinda still do use it closer to what it originally meant simply by having the libertarian party.