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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 144 points 4 days ago (26 children)

Fun fact: the name for a weed in my native language is literally "angry grass" :3

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The French name for weed could be translated to "bad/wrong grass"

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 4 days ago

Erbaccia in Italian, bad/ugly grass

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think this is something I might be too French-Canadian to understand, here we'd call it "pot" or perhaps "herbe", both of which don't translate to "bad grass".

Unless overseas "herbe" translates to weed. We use it pretty interchangeably with "gazon" (which just means grass)

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

"Mauvaises herbes" this is the word I was thinking about.

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