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3 comments on “Real sign: told “Monsters” is…”

1. ditaviz says:

   6 August, 2011 at 10:55 am

   Also dutch. As a non-dutch biologist was always fun to go collecting “monsters” in field excursions. It did take me a little while to realise they were not getting the piss out of me.
2. Spatula says:

   9 August, 2011 at 12:06 am

   Shared roots with the English “demonstrate,” I guess.
3. rvloon says:

   10 August, 2011 at 5:07 pm

   Monsters is actually Dutch in origin and in the hospital context it could be “samples” (which also homonyms to the equivalent English “monsters”). Would the English use “urine specimen” rather than “urine sample” ? Sounds a bit weird to me. “Hospitaal” sounds more Flemmish to me. Dutch people would say “Ziekenhuis” (House of/for the Sick) rather than “Hospitaal”.