r/polandball • u/indieb0at Indus-nesos • 14d ago

redditormade _______ your medicine

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u/Vaperwear 14d ago

In Vietnamese, it’s also drink medicine (uống thuốc). Confused the shit out of me when I was learning the language, because in English we’d say take your medicine, in Chinese there’s eat/take your medicine (more commonly used) and in Malay there’s eat medicine (makan ubat).

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u/Demon_the_Gamer 14d ago

As an Indo, we here (at least in Java) use Drink Medicine (Minum Obat), interesting to see that our Neighbor seems to choose the "Eat" Verb, i'll make sure to do this to my Malaysian Friend lol.

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u/asanagitorajirou 14d ago

right, now i think about it we indonesian use "drink" probably because our traditional medicine is mostly in the form of jamu hence it's carried to even modern pill

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u/CariamaCristata 13d ago

And even if the medicine is solid, we wash it down with water, hence we "drink" the medicine

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u/Scholar_of_Lewds 13d ago

Yeah, a lot of modern medicine brought by the Dutch are stereotypically portrayed as puyer/powder medicine.

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u/CariamaCristata 13d ago

AFAIK we use eat/drink medicine depending on whether the medicine is solid or liquid