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TranscriptA tweet by Ivanka Trump @ivankatrump saying "I cannot believe that Theodore is eight months old today! Happy birthday little teddy bear!" with an admittedly cute picture of a child smiling. It has a reply from @blacknmild saying "this isn't how birthdays work"

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[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (6 children)

In Dutch, birthday translates to "verjaardag" where "jaar" means "year" and "dag" means day, so the literal meaning of "verjaardag" comes down to "the day you grow one year older". By that logic, the day a baby grows one month older could be named "vermaanddag", where "maand" means month. It's not a real word but it's a good pun and it would get the idea across. Unfortunately it doesn't work in English.

[–] jon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

To be slightly absurd: Every day is a day you are one year older than the same day the previous year

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