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From: Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:39:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK6BEgd4yehsSXxpSPCwaR=V=Pa4jrr94tyVPpR7vy6_aUZ_dw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2419313d-a951-ba2d-48a4-6b0bf225f2eb@gmail.com>

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Den lör 19 juni 2021 kl 15:36 skrev Harald Arnesen <skogtun@gmail.com>:

> Steffen Nurpmeso [18.06.2021 23:00]:
>
> > To me it sounds rather like a modification of "Bogen", which can
> > mean quite some different things itself, from a "bend" (so the
> > profession of a wood-bender comes to mind at a glance, "böge" is
> > also the conjugation of "bending" "er böge" thus "he would bend")
>
> In Norway, "bøg" is an older, derogative description of a homosexual
> male. Fits in with the German meaning "bent".
>

"Bög" means a homosexual male in Sweden also. It used to be derogatory
but has been adopted by the gay community itself, so it's really just
descriptive now (although I'm pretty sure kids still use it as an insult).

Niklas

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-19 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-15 22:16 Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-15 22:54 ` John Cowan
2021-06-15 23:44   ` Dan Cross
2021-06-16  3:48     ` Rob Pike
2021-06-16  4:13       ` Bakul Shah
2021-06-16 21:57         ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 20:19           ` John Cowan
2021-06-18 21:00             ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-18 22:59               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 13:34               ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-19 13:39                 ` Niklas Karlsson [this message]
2021-06-19  7:57             ` [TUHS] Bugs, Bööge and Bogeymen (was: 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-19 15:48               ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 15:52                 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-06-19 16:36                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-06-19 21:05                 ` Harald Arnesen
2021-06-20  3:30                   ` arnold
2021-06-16  1:06   ` [TUHS] Bug etymology " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-06-16  8:16 [TUHS] 70th anniversary of (official) programming errors Jason Stevens

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