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Still wild to me that the Dutch are the only people to curse with illnesses
@anarchiv it's *usually* not people aimed, and cancer specifically is still frowned upon by a lot of people, but yeah, people say that
@f0x Also now I can't help imagining some Dutch guy spilling coffee down his shirt and yelling "Syphilis!!" in anger
@anarchiv isn't particularly in use currently but they'd absolutely say tuberculosis
older diseases like 'pest' (plague), 'tering' (turbucolosis), 'tyfvus' (typhus) are most common, I wonder if/when covid gets into the swearing vocab