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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: International Women's Day (8 March)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 09:27:32 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-08, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> It shows up on my master list as a national holiday only in Russia, 
> Belarus and Ukraine.

In Germany, it's a regional holiday in... *checks schulferien.org*...
Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day
>
> /Ob sci.lang:  The Wikipedia article features a dynamic poster for IWD 
> in Germany, 1914. "This poster was banned in the German Empire."
> One line on the poster reads: "Heraus mit dem Frauenwahlrecht."
> I find it hard not to translate that as "Out with women's right to 
> vote"; but in English that would give the opposite of what I'm sure was 
> the intended meaning. So it's really something like "Come out and show 
> your support for....". Am I right?

That would be my guess as well.  It's an odd phrasing from today's
perspective.

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de