𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoIt'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?message-squaremessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down19
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareIt'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?𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.social to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 10 hours agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 hours agoeighty potatoes … french translation -> … “quatre-vingts pommes de terre” (four twenties of earth apples)
eighty potatoes … french translation -> … “quatre-vingts pommes de terre” (four twenties of earth apples)
And that’s terrible…