Dutch expletives include telling people to “typhus off” (optyfussen) or “get consumption” (krijg de tering)
, if someone said you had cancer, it would be a diagnosis. In Dutch, it is more likely to be an insult. is one of a long list of Dutch profanities and expletives derived from diseases. An undesirable person might be told to “typhus off” or “get consumption” . If in English you laugh your ass off, in Dutch you might “laugh yourself the pleurisy” .
However, there is also what linguists call the frequency hypothesis: the Dutch may curse with diseases simply because it caught on. Language, as Laurie Anderson said, is a virus. Perhaps someday Dutch kids will savage each other on the playground with cries ofThis article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Dutch disease"
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