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I wonder if this is why sitting at a desk is so bad for us. Half way to torture.

• grecy 6y ago
  Yes indeed. The word for paid work in French is travail, which has the same Latin base as the word torture.
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  • pezezin 6y ago
    I didn't know about that but you are right. Not only French, also Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, and maybe other language. It comes from a torture instrument called "tripalium", literally "three sticks".