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?

• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s their superficial resemblance to pinecones.

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  • BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• raef@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Spanish conveniently missing

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  • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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