Comment on Why do we not eat pig or cow?

• bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My country also has not been invaded by the Normans but we call pig a pig and cow a cow.

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  • UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Where are you from, if you don’t mind me asking?

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    • bigkix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      South-Eastern EU. Not going any more particular than that :)

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      • UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ok, no problém.

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• whenigrowup356@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you don’t mind my asking, which language is yours?

  It’s an interesting question to ponder which different languages ended up with distinction words for the meat vs the living animal, and maybe what that says about the culture.

  The distinction is not a feature of French, from what I understand, and English ending up with this distinction seems to have been entirely accidental.

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  • UnknownQuantity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s Czech. It also applies to Slovakian.

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