Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple?

Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s their superficial resemblance to pinecones.

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    • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a bit cherry picked, but only a bit, since there are a few languages that just copied the English word later on.
    Japanese and Korean come to mind.

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    • this@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s actually makes it funnier to me because ananas would be easier to pronounce in Japanese vs pineapple. Ananansu(u is silent) vs Painappuru.

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      • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh absolutely!
        They just had no ananas exposure beyond that from the Americans.

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  • raef@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spanish conveniently missing

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    • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And anthough it might be correct, I’ve never head anyone say mañana in Basque. We just use piña(pinia)

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    • raef@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here’s how the creation of the graphic went: /: Create a binary Ignore vast majority (of people working with subject) Slap together chart, cherrypicking Gloat /

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fun fact: no one knows why us squid are called that in English and no other language calls us anything like that.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i call bullshit. its “abacaxi” in portuguese, not nanana

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably to avoid confusion with bananas?

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  • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is english known for trying to avoid confusion?

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh you can’t even imagine the amount of times I put a pineapple up there.

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    • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Here i go, imagining again.

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe! Who knows what those crazy British were thinking. At least a pineapple is a fruit, and I can easily believe that the namers had never seen anything but crude drawings of a pineapple tree, and not having experience with palm trees, thought they looked most like pines.

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  Or, maybe it’s derived from some misinterpretation of a Greek word, or something. English is a hodge-podge language of borrowed words.

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  • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is no such thing as a pineapple tree. That’s an AI image.

    Pineapples grow in an even more ridiculous way.

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    • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit. It’s insane that random AI generated drivel and misinformation has already started seeping into random conversations like this. It really has already become completely ubiquitous, hasn’t it? 🤦🏻‍♂️ OOF

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      • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thankfully due to the costs and training rot, its not going to get worse.

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  • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pineapples don’t grow on trees. Take that A’I’ slop somewhere else.

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  • RedStrider@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    👆 ai detected

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  • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those look closer to durian than pineapples tbh.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Durian have a far worse reputation than their actual reality. Surströmming, on the other hand, over-achieves its reputation.

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  • recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that image looks pretty crazy!😮

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    • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s AI-generated non-sense. Pineapples grow on small plants like this:
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      • recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ahh that makes a lot more sense as I’m currently following MegadethRulz’s homegrown pineapple saga here :D

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I grabbed it at random froma search results. I think it’s not real.

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• Shapillon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pineapples are a freak fruit though.They grow on some kind of weird weed like some kind of joke.

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