Back to the 50ies: Famigros competition for Mother's Day
Back to the 50ies: Famigros-Wettbewerb zum Muttertag
The newsletter text was beyond good and evil. I am stunned.
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Now I'm curious.
Can someone please post the relevant newsletter text here? I'm not allowed to be a Famigros member, so I don't receive the newsletter.
Thank you.
Mothers are unique people. They give a lot and need little to blossom: a few kind words, a small gift and beautiful flowers from time to time. Famigros would like to thank all mothers with a rosy competition and is giving away ten flowers worth CHF 1000 each for a whole year on Mother's Day. We keep our fingers crossed.
Your Famigros team
Patronizing much??
Indeed, a rarely stupid text.
Logical. After all, "stupid" comes from Dame, while "marvelous"... oh, let's not go there!
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Side note: dämlich comes from the Low or Middle German "dämelen", which means "to be not quite in one's senses" and probably goes back to "taumeln" (to stagger, to be uncertain).
Dame, on the other hand, comes from the Latin "domina", which means mistress.
Nevertheless, I try to remove "stupid" from my vocabulary because of the obvious similarity - you don't want to explain to everyone first that, from an etymological point of view, there is no connection to lady...
stupid
( for:) "stupid, silly":
This word, attested since the 18th century, belongs to the verb dämelen "to be not quite in one's right mind", attested since the 16th century. Related is - damisch, which corresponds to the older, now lost dämisch, and also in the language area temetum "intoxicating drink", temulentus "intoxicated", tām "illness, death" and tomitʼ "torment, oppress".
Source: Duden - The dictionary of origins, 5th edition
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Back to the article: I sincerely hope that these 10,000 francs will be invested in fairtrade and, ideally, seasonal plants!