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?

• Kushan@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a bingo.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It also explain why we here in the Nordics call oranges “appelsin”, as in a “Chinese apple”.

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  • appelkooskonfyt@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same in Dutch: sinaasappel

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• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great! Can’t have myths about random fruit in this otherwise totally valid, reasonable and trustworthy story about a woman that was made from a man’s rib and talked to reptiles.

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  • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If a narrative is not literally true, does that mean it has no value?

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    • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is “truth value” supposed to mean?

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      • Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sorry, I wasn’t explaining myself well.

        Just because a story isn’t factually true, doesn’t mean that it has no value, or negative value. There are other types of values which can supersede factual value:

        • aesthetic
        • symbolic
        • ethical
        • didactic

        Truth isn’t always about facts. Sometimes factual statements can be used as a weapon of deceit.

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But… we’re talking French and Adam and Eve was written in Hebrew. Is it the same for Hebrew?

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  • Uruanna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You got it the wrong way around. Hebrew used a generic word for fruit, all languages translated that word as their version of apple which was generic at the time, and then much later, all languages changed the meaning of their word for apple, it’s not specific to French. The use of apple for one specific fruit is fairly recent.

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  • nabladabla@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Literally yes, ground apple is potato in hebrew

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