I want to take back ‘Retard’. Because I want it to apply to things that are infuriatingly stupid, instead of it being used as a derogatory term towards special needs people.

  • Albbi@lemmy.ca
    202·
    11 months ago

    Pineapple. Just use ananas like the rest of the world.

    It’s not from a pine tree and it’s not an apple.

    • Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      11 months ago

      not sure what “rest of the world” is because there’s so many languages. i know that portuguese calls it “abacaxi” (“xi” is pronounced “she”)

      • Albbi@lemmy.ca
        41·
        11 months ago

        Ah, there’s an old image showing this. I guess it’s not ananas in every language, but it is a lot of them!

        Here’s the image

        Portuguese is even on this list, but modified with (eu). What does that mean?

        • Wilker@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          11 months ago

          EU means Europe (so european portuguese), which has a few more pronounced differences compared to brazilian portuguese compared to the difference between US english and UK english

        • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
          3·
          11 months ago

          Probably, like Spanish, that it has a separate language spun off in Latin America that’s “the same language” but only mostly. I think they branch more than, e.g., a southern dialect vs England, but I don’t know enough of the different versions to know if that’s real or not.