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Perhaps the best instance of a scientific term being chosen for its sound and alternative meaning is "Moronic acid". And yes it was isolated from plants in the mulberry family *Moraceae*, but they could have gone with "Moric acid" and I respect their choice not to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moronic_acid

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guilty! hi uses pure subversive poetic playfulness in order to behandle, via resonance in lalangue, cages rages and mazes of prodigious surplus enjoyment -- whether to colonize the miracle/spiracle or infiltrate the irresistible... but alas, never to bribe with obedience... 🌹

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cào nǐ mā is also a pun "drill your mother" e.g. cāo.

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I have heard another explanation of the name of the ice cream company. It was supposed to be an adaptation into English/American of a famous classic Swedish cook (Hagdahl) and his famous well researched and practised cook book. The cook book covers everything for a meal, entrees, main courses, desserts and so on. Hagdahl was a medical doctor that took on to healthy and almost scientific cooking in the middle of the 19th century. So the resemblance to Danish is not so far.

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interesting.

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Brilliant!

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It has a z so it's not German

Danish dairies don't have vermin

Danish dairies are quite free

from hate and militocracy

not mere words but 'tis the form

butters bread and keeps us warm

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'Lustgewinn' per Freudian Promiss is 'Schadenfreude' which is in english Damage Joy or Sadism followed by 'Fremdscham' which is Xenophobism. Clearly Sadism makes people sad. Also see 'Leidenschaft' which is the act of passionated Suffer Making. Fascists are clearly Sadists.

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Score one for the Danes.

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