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using such expressions to insult, swear, or exaggerate at healthy people is a quite normal function of the Dutch language

English, too.

It reminds me of early 2002 when all the little kids on the playgrounds were calling each other "terrorist" as an insult. Their parents were aghast, but to them, they just knew it meant a really bad person.



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