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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?

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

as they couldn’t pronounce the Dutch word

I mean I can’t blame them, the language’s phonosyntactics are very different from French, it’s hard to pronounce in general and sounds awful to boot.

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Donut@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s funny how Dutch doesn’t shy away from loaning French words, despite the difference. Examples are chauffeur, etalage, cadeau, auto and medaille.

I don’t agree that aardappel is hard to pronounce in general if you’re an English speaker though. Check it out: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/aardappel

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- lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Alternative forms
  
  Eerdappel […] (obsolete)
  
  As Arnhemmer, I don’t completely agree.
  
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