Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?message-squaremessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up170arrow-down1message-squareWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square62fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoNot 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?
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoHungarian 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.
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoDanish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk
Not the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword.
Do they? Which ones?
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.
Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk
German for example