Tune a fish

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• thenextguy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve noticed the same thing with Koi. But not with trout or bass or most other fish.

  It makes sense for swordfish, because just sword is ambiguous.

  Language is weird.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not all language is weird, some language makes more sense than other, that’s the whole contention!

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• Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same thing as “left-hand side”. You’re not children anymore, you can just say left side.

  Would “left-foot side” make sense? Would it be different from the hand?

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  • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Left-hand side is like saying your left, not mine. You could also say on your left but then again, English has lots of ways to say lots of things.

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• vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Come to think of it, we do say “tuna fish sandwich”, but we also say “tuna salad sandwich”.

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tuna means prickly pear cactus fruit in Spanish, I’ve heard it called that pretty often in Texas

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• troglodytis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s “chicken bird for midday lunch,” Carl.

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• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Isn’t there a famous clip of one of the Kardashians asking if tuna was chicken?

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  • Floodedwomb@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Jessica Simpson

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    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Right, that’s who I was thinking of

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• pigup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• X@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They don’t have to say “tuna fish”. Most don’t, as far as I know. Who are you hanging out with that you think it’s somehow mandatory?

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• Philharmonic3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s to make sure we know we’re having tuna fish instead of tuna of the land, which is what we call chicken.

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• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never heard an American call it tuna fish. I’ve only ever heard Bri*ish people call it that.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am having tuna fish as opposed to tuna steak.

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  • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    tuna steak is fish, so why isn’t it tuna fish steak?

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why do they call their babies “Baby Joe” or “Baby Velma”? We know they are babies. Do they also call them “Young Adult Joe”, and “Middle Aged Joe”?

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• Nihilistic_Mystics@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve never heard a single person say tunafish outside of TV. I have no idea where the idea that Americans use this frequently came from, but it’s not true.

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m from the US and say tuna fish for canned tuna, just saying tuna can be sushi or like frozen fish. The US is huge it’s probably regional

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    People usually use tunafish to refer to tuna salad, which is mainly canned tuna, mayonnaise, and a few seasonings, typically served on a sandwich.

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Next up: seafood. Its just meat from the water.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I want me a big cow steak with a side of shrimp shrimp. Could you crumble some pig bacon on it?

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• SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, so can I ask about the “hot water heater” then? Do some people have a tepid water heater in their homes? 🤨

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a heater to make hot water. As opposed to a space heater, which is a heater used to heat a space and a food heater that is a heater used to heat food to serving temps and a floor heater which is a heater to warm up a floor.

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    • SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But a water heater is going to produce hot water, right? That’s what it does. It’s redundant to call it a hot water heater, unless you have multiple water heaters for different temperatures, then you’d need to specify, like the lukewarm water heater. I’ll note that we don’t call them hot food heaters, warm space heaters, or warm floor heaters, because we know that’s going to be the result.

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• Janx@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d rather have a steak cow.

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• Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish

  • goku

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• cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mutton goat is the best meat. I’ve always said that mutton is GOAT.

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think you are wrong and mammoth is GOAT, because if you think about it, we still have mutton, but we literally ate all the mammoth.

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