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?

• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Semi.
  Another kind of slur is calling “spießig” (dunno the english word. Google suggests stuffy or bourgeois) Germans “Almans” which is essentially the french word for german people but if you call a german “Alman” it’s kinda an insult (unless you own it).

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  • Johnmannesca@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Similarly, in Spanish, Aleman means German, as such Alemania means Germany.

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