Diseases and insults in the Netherlands:
The worse the disease, the more insulting the curse, and the Dutch use a whole clutch of them: pleurisy, tuberculosis, the plague, smallpox, cancer… recently even Aids has been added to the list. To call someone an ‘Aids sufferer’, for instance, is a grave insult, so the system evolves continually.
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