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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 27 Jun 18:00
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TaTTe@lemmy.world on 27 Jun 19:42 collapse

I kid you not, this is called förgätmigej (förgät mig ej) in Swedish. I was today years old when I found out “förgät” actually is an old word meaning, you guessed it, “forget”.

(The common translation for “forget” would be “glöm”.)

poinck@lemm.ee on 28 Jun 08:35 collapse

Oh “Vergissmeinnicht”, beautiful (“vergiss mich nicht”, german for “don’t forget me”)

KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.de on 28 Jun 09:19 collapse

In Hungarian it’s ‘nefelejcs’ with the same meaning. Curious what’s the origin of this name.

coffee_tacos@mander.xyz on 28 Jun 10:23 collapse

It looks like that answer might be lost to time, but the flower has been used to represent “everlasting love and devotion” since the middle ages. source (wikipedia)