Oglaf

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This comic started out as an attempt to make pornography. It degenerated into a sex comedy pretty much immediately

Posting new comics, and old comics until we're caught up

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Scabbard 1 (midwest.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Fun fact, the German word for scabbard is "Scheide" which also means vagina.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That is a fun fact! Looks like sheath in English is a cognate with the same etymology

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Middle English shethe, "close-fitting case or covering for a blade," from Old English sceaþ, scæþ, from Proto-Germanic *skaith- (source also of Old Saxon scethia, Old Norse skeiðir (plural), Old Frisian skethe, Middle Dutch schede, Dutch schede, Old High German skaida, German scheide "a sheath, scabbard"), perhaps from an extended form of PIE root *skei- "to cut, split," on the notion of a split stick with the sword blade inserted.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sheath

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

and vagina is just the Latin word for sheath

something about men and their swords, I guess

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

And the word "vagina" is Latin for scabbard