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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? (midwest.social)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Counter point:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Ananas

Bananas

:-/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this a copypasta?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The James Nicoll quote is better - use that instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Also what I was taught in US Spanish classes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

The takeaway here is, the rest of the world uses different words than the continents where it comes from