Anyway, I'm sick. Monday I had a fever and I was freezing cold on the inside and burning up on the outside. I've gone through two boxes of tissues and I feel as weak as a kitten. Hopefully this confers some immunity to whatever else goes around. I'm going to post some music themed to sickness. Unfortunately none of them seem to refer to being down with the flu, but that's what you get.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Griep
So I've been down with the flu all week. "Flu" in Dutch is "griep", pronounced phonetically in English as "greep". It comes from the French occupation of the Netherlands. The French word for flu is "grippe". We used to use that word for it in English too, but somewhere along the way we switched to the Italian word for it which is "influenza", so named because the original Italian theory before germ theory came along was that it was caused by the influence of the stars. It seems to me that there was some sort of tug of war between French and Latin when it came to medical terminology. Latin won.
Anyway, I'm sick. Monday I had a fever and I was freezing cold on the inside and burning up on the outside. I've gone through two boxes of tissues and I feel as weak as a kitten. Hopefully this confers some immunity to whatever else goes around. I'm going to post some music themed to sickness. Unfortunately none of them seem to refer to being down with the flu, but that's what you get.
Anyway, I'm sick. Monday I had a fever and I was freezing cold on the inside and burning up on the outside. I've gone through two boxes of tissues and I feel as weak as a kitten. Hopefully this confers some immunity to whatever else goes around. I'm going to post some music themed to sickness. Unfortunately none of them seem to refer to being down with the flu, but that's what you get.
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Hope you're feeling better. We use the French word for flu, as well.
ReplyDeleteIt's going slowly, but it's getting better. Four days in bed helped a lot, which is more than I would have gotten in the US. I still feel pretty crap, but at least I don't have the stress of wondering if I'll lose my job for being out longer than a day or two. That's a pretty big improvement.
DeleteThanks for the kind wishes Andreas. :)