I Wish Cancer Changed Its Name

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KT67
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09 Jan 2021, 8:36 am

I wish either the star sign or the disease changed its name.

My granddad is that star sign and has that disease.

If he dies then every time I look at star signs or hear someone's star sign I'll be reminded.

I never liked the name of the sign before now & now it's just upsetting to me.

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09 Jan 2021, 10:35 am

That is understandable.
And I don't know how to change those things.

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09 Jan 2021, 10:39 am

In Arabic it also used the same word (yet totally different from the English word) for both the disease and the maritime animal; which is the star sign you’re referring to.

Strange indeed.

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09 Jan 2021, 10:46 am

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

In Arabic it also used the same word (yet totally different from the English word) for both the disease and the maritime animal; which is the star sign you’re referring to.

Strange indeed.

Same with Polish. "Rak" is all three: both meanings of "cancer" and - crayfish - a freshwater crustacean.

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09 Jan 2021, 10:57 am

KT67 wrote:

Have you checked if his star sign changed when they added a new star sign ?

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09 Jan 2021, 12:14 pm

Let's ask Aunt Wikipedia:

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The word comes from the ancient Greek καρκίνος, meaning crab and tumor. Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted similarity of crabs to some tumors with swollen veins. The word was introduced in English in the modern medical sense c. 1600.[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#Et ... efinitions

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09 Jan 2021, 12:20 pm

commiserate wrote:

KT67 wrote:

Have you checked if his star sign changed when they added a new star sign ?

Oh good point, it did.

Now he's a gemini not me.

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09 Jan 2021, 12:53 pm

magz wrote:

Let's ask Aunt Wikipedia:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#Et ... efinitions

It's always the Greeks.

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09 Jan 2021, 1:08 pm

Yeah...the ancients thought skin cancers looked like little crabs. So thats how the disease got the Latin name for crab.

I live in a nation that was born on July 4th 1776. So my USA is a "Cancer Nation". :roll:

Well...we gave the world tobacco. So maybe thats appropriate.

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09 Jan 2021, 1:33 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

Well...we gave the world tobacco. So maybe thats appropriate.

I think many can agree that the US is a cancer.

I'm American so I can say that.

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