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w3dd1e@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• SleepyBear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My highschool french class always loved the word for “squirrel”, “pomegranate”, and of course the ever popular “seal in the shower” combo for extra fun.

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• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  to be fair, that’s a modern take. in antiquity it was so ignoble it was given the generic name for a fruit/vegetable.

  a modern version might be more akin to “dirt thing”

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  • Ashiette@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Potatoes weren’t introduced to europeans in the antiquity

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I meant it colloquially - like a long time ago - but fair point. More accurately, it was introduced about 100-150 years before there was a linguistic trend for fruit to be called fruit and not apples.

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