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I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.
If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?
Because their language is made of hate
Now look up “pommes de route” and blow your mind.
It appears to be a music album. I didn't even know they were plants, much less vegetables!
The English phrase that seems to most accurately translate is horse apples.
You didn’t dive deep enough; the album is named after something.
French has a unique method of coming up with swear words
They are the French. Don't expect them to be reasonable.
You almost had me there with your frogeater logic.
It comes from Latin "malum terrae", which has been attested in French since 1488 to designate various tuber or bulb plants
You could really hurt a kid hitting them with a whole-ass King James translation...
If they used this book to teach biology, one should hit the teacher instead.
Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.
This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.
There were enough red flags, but I should have seen more of them tbh
"She didn't know what a logarithm was!"
That's just another reason why homeschooling is a bad idea.