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Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

theguardian.com

25 pointsiechoz6H12 comments

This other article has the full list: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/02/the-546-english-wo...

Some of these are very country or group specific. “Lit” is a term used in American hip hop. “Pissed” is mainly used in Britain. “Wasted” is used by American high school and college students.

It's meant to capture words used in Britain. No doubt some people use "lit", and I definitely hear "wasted" plenty.

Similarly why Eskimo people has so many words for ice and likewise Arabic has so many words for sword. In terestingly the Quran as the corpus and golden standard for Arabic language does not contains the word sword in its entirety.

just come out with the racism and Islamophobia instead of the subtle malevolent insinuation

On the contrary, the orientalist came out with the false claim of Islam spread by the sword but the word is not even mentioned in the Quran although culturally Arab people has strong affinity with the sword.

You know this how ? I stand by what I said your comment is malicious

No worries, you're entitled to your opinion. The following statement is taken from the article in [1].

The noted historian De Lacy O'Leary wrote: "History makes it clear however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of the sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated." [1]

[1] Islam spread by the message of love and not by the sword:

https://www.arabnews.com/islam-perspective/islam-spread-mess...

And definitely not imposed on newly conquered lands, where temples were broken, and mosques built on the ruins, using the same stone.

Calm down now, they aren't Christians.

I haven't counted but I feel like we probably have just as many words for snow as they do.

Snow, slush, powder, hail, sleet, avalanche, blizzard etc.

Arabic has hundreds of words for Camel. Never heard the Arabic example with sword before.

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