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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?

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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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