• Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Why didn’t we can birds “fly”. I mean when I think of flying the first thing I think about are birds. Not fucking flies.

      • Ebber@lemmings.world
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        6 months ago

        We say “flyver” in Danish which basically would be flyor in English. “At flyve” means “to fly”.

        The ‘proper’ word - so to speak - “flyvemaskine” directly translates to “flymachine”, compounding “(to) fly” and “machine”. Though if you’re really busy you can just call it a “fly”.