• andrew_bidlaw
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    1 year ago

    Lel. You’d be surprised, but I don’t. What’s the language is it? Polish? I only heard it being associated with unclever commoners lacking any manners.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      1 year ago

      It’s Polish in origin, as ⟨bydło⟩ ['bɨd.wɔ]. In the language it refers directly to cattle, but metaphorically to cattle-like people, like a herd of people who don’t think by themselves.

      The way that you spelled it in your nickname is as Russian borrowed the word from Polish, ⟨быдло⟩ ['bɨd.ɫə]. In Russian I think that the meaning as “cattle-like people” is default.

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        1 year ago

        TIL.

        Thank you. That makes a lot of sense. I’d reconsider my relationships with that word in the future.