𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 to Showerthoughts • 3 months 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-square188fedilinkarrow-up1375arrow-down126
arrow-up1349arrow-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 to Showerthoughts • 3 months agomessage-square188fedilink
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglish10•3 months 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)
Ayy lmao.
And that’s terrible…