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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

It'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?

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It'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?

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

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17 days ago
Yeah, I wasn’t going for transliteration. “Apples of Earth” doesn’t convey the same concept.

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