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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

As far as I know Tuna-fish is only a nth American thing and sounds very weird to my ears.

So this vote will likely be Nth America vs the rest.

Honestly, why only tuna fish?

Salmon-fish?

Chicken-bird?

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you can tuna fish, so where does that leave us?

[–] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

I guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

That was a great album.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it really that hard to write the word "north"? Is that even what nth is supposed to mean? I keep reading it as the mathematical "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th..., nth" and it makes my head hurt

[–] Nemo@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"tunafish" sounds weird but "nth American" (not first or second or thirteenth but nth) sounds fine?

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’ - Oscar Wilde

[–] GrimSheeper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We don't talk about 1st America and 2nd America

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"North", I assume

[–] allan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swordfish? Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name, also

[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword.

Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name

Do they? Which ones?

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hungarian here. Probably it would sound weird without the 'fish' bit, since we call it 'tonhal' ('hal' meaning fish). I just can't imagine someone offering some tuna to me, asking 'Ton?'.

EDIT: However, in English, I call it tuna, not tuna fish.

German for example

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We do have a tuna cactus here that people eat. Nopales are from the Tuna. Prickly pear fruit also. That cactus is often called Tuna here.

I mean the fish when I say Tuna though, and would say Prickly Pear cactus.

But do hear Tuna often used to mean the plant.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And what about the tuna-cat and tuna-bird?

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Human-mammal would be the closest taxonomically.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

There's a few other redundant versions, like how they say "horse-back riding". Why not bikeseat riding or plane cockpit flying?

[–] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Jay bird

Panda bear

Scarab beetles