Montessori Space Programme 🛸 on Nostr: It's still funny to me that the English verb "to starve" and the German verb ...
It's still funny to me that the English verb "to starve" and the German verb "sterben" (to die) have the same root. It's an interesting case of how the semantic range of a word can expand and contract sometimes. There's tons of these between German and Dutch, which can make for some pretty awkward misunderstandings
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