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is this unique to English? I imagine other colonial/naval languages have lots of sailor jargon too. Even in this video they mentioned a few of ours came from Dutch and French.
There are a bunch of expressions in Dutch, some even overlapping with English (like all hands on deck/alle hens aan dek). I could think of five to ten off the top of my head, so I imagine there are a lot more that aren’t as obvious.
