The Spanish language actually makes sense (1 Viewer)

[Ahsoka]

In Spanish, if you want to eat an olive, you’ll probably eat an aceituna. But if you want olive oil, you’ll probably want aceite de oliva. In this case, the aceite part is oil and olive is oliva. But isn’t aceite weirdly close to aceituna?

That’s because both come from Arabic, and the two Arabic words come from the same root, zayt. In Arabic, olive was just the word oil with a suffix. So even though the word for olive changes in the Spanish words, the phrase still remains similar in its own way. Pretty cool

 

[Ahsoka]

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[dark_tranquility]

I hate olives with a passion
but this thread is all fashion

 

[uran]

Thank you oh wise one for thy wisdom that you hasth given thy humble lowly follower

 

[uran]

I hate olives with a passion
but this thread is all fashion

Im allergic to olives
And unlike lactose intolerance i really cant eat or use olive oil in cooking or skin care at all. Lactose intolerance can bitch about me eating cheese all it wants i wont listen

 

[dark_tranquility]

Im allergic to olives
And unlike lactose intolerance i really cant eat or use olive oil in cooking or skin care at all. Lactose intolerance can bitch about me eating cheese all it wants i wont listen

I am lactose intolerance as well
milk and me do not fit as well

 

[eclipsoul]

unlike lazy polish where olive oil is named "oliwa z oliwek" which kinda sounds like "olive from olive"

 

[dark_tranquility]

unlike lazy polish where olive oil is named "oliwa z oliwek" which kinda sounds like "olive from olive"

poles have a cool/difference in their language imo

 

[Moguri]

I think I like it better when it's just called the same in both cases

 

[Moguri]

I hate olives with a passion
but this thread is all fashion

a cool ryhme!!

 

[Moguri]

unlike lazy polish where olive oil is named "oliwa z oliwek" which kinda sounds like "olive from olive"

thats a bit too similar yeah

 

[dark_tranquility]

a cool ryhme!!

indeed

 

[Ahsoka]

unlike lazy polish where olive oil is named "oliwa z oliwek" which kinda sounds like "olive from olive"

At least Polish isn’t so lazy it makes oil and butter the same word If anyone asks me to take out the butter/oil in Russian I almost always feel like I have to ask them to clarify which kind

 

[Moguri]

At least Polish isn’t so lazy it makes oil and butter the same word If anyone asks me to take out the butter/oil in Russian I almost always feel like I have to ask them to clarify which kind

how do the russians know?

 

[Ahsoka]

how do the russians know?

Context or asking. I do still believe that it’s usually clearer just with context than the double meaning of hot (in English) in terms of food (spicy and high temp) Very easy to call certain foods hot and no one is actually sure what that means

 

[Moguri]

Context or asking. I do still believe that it’s usually clearer just with context than the double meaning of hot (in English) in terms of food (spicy and high temp) Very easy to call certain foods hot and no one is actually sure what that means

I wish all double meanings got be extingiushed