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A language like a set of building blocks. (feddit.org)
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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Same in Swedish:

Cold - Kyla

Cupboard - Skåp

Fridge - Kylskåp

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Same in Danish (køleskab). And I bet it's the same in Norwegian?

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah probably

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So Swedish term for fridges is basically just icebox? My great great aunt would've loved the Swedes.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Coldbox, but yeah

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was moreso trying to make a joke on the fact that the Swedish word is very similar to the archaic English term.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see! I didn't know that

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

I don't think most people under the age of 80 know, but I grew up around old bastards and am into antiques so it just kinda stuck out to me.

Have a rather fancy ice box from the 1890s that would've used metal shelves you put ice between which would then cool and keep an insulated cubbard chilled refrigerating the food within, between that and the fact it had a hose to drain the cold water which gather in a lower sub area as the ice melted it'd be about as good as a modern ice chest though you'd have to fill it with new ice every morning. Though it's currently being used for clothes storage.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Finnish term still is, jääkaappi.

Pakastin is just literally a freezer, though

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's too much a.

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean? Ä and a are completely different letters

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I know they sound different but we are getting downright Mississippi.