• andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months 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.

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      9 months 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.