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?

scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can’t include English in any rational discussion about languages. It breaks every rule, and isn’t one language, but a pidgin of three or four. It’s a bastard of a language, and what-about-ism involving English is so trivial it’s not worth debating. You can always find a worse example of any language linguistic stupidity in English.

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  • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

    Writer James D. Nicoll

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  • scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is this a copypasta?

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    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is now

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      • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The James Nicoll quote is better - use that instead.

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• Unimperfect@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In Castellano (Spanish from Spain), it’s called piña.

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  • raef@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Spanish in other places, too—piña colada, anyone?

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also what I was taught in US Spanish classes.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ananas

  Bananas

  :-/

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