Donut

@Donut@leminal.space

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, pommes de terre. In Dutch is “aardappel”, which is more literally earthapple. But I will add, the apple part isn’t referring to the fruit, but means more like “a spherical object”.

  Also the French used aardappel to create the word pomme de terre for it in 1716, as they couldn’t pronounce the Dutch word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dangerous driving, repeated DUIs, ecological damage by corporations, stuff like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course I’m being subjective and anecdotal here, but there could be a lot more in prison if they wanted to do their actual job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Isolation Sequel Has Been Officially Confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would never be able to play a game like this but watching people play it has been a blast. Hope it does the first one justice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That hurts a little⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then, Halo felt like running 26.219 miles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EcoGnomix, a roguelite town-builder x exploration/mining game hybrid, released on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Had the pleasure of playing an early version last year, very cool to see how much of it has “settled” and the direction is crystal clear now. Love the little mechanics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every phone call you make with just the mic near your mouth and the speaker near your ear, you are having a conversational 69 where both of you are placing your mouths next to each other's ears.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we pin this post as an example kthnx