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On 12 Oct 2025 11:07:46 GMT
St=E9phane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

> >> We sometimes use "caca" to mean "shit" in English too. =20
>=20
> I didn't knew that.

English *loves* to appropriate swear words from other languages. We
have so many to choose from as a result that they've acquired a kind of
informal scale-of-rudeness; even a comically innocent thing like
"poppycock" is derived from the Dutch for "soft dung."