I work with a team of people from all over the world , and the word “eggplant” came up the other day. They asked me why Americans call an “aubergine” an “eggplant.”
So I showed them a photo of an unripe eggplant:
Americans really do label things like cave men just saying the most simple words to describe something:
- Eggplant > looks like an egg and is a plant
- Sidewalk > side of road you walk on
I’m all out of example but I’m sure there are more like this and I like it.
Parkway and driveway got mixed up for some reason
Whoever named those must be descended from the people that named Iceland and Greenland
Parkway was a road that went near park or other scenic spot. Drive ways were drives that connected private estates to a main road. Way back in the day those could actually be long enough the main house was not visible from the main road.
It’s not unique to Americans. A lot of cultures use compound words to describe new things
What?
?????A joke of a plant
What’s crazy is that not only is that the same species as broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower, but practically the entire plant in that photo is edible.
Brussels is such a weird city
That’s nothing, look at pineapple.
And the first English speaker who saw one went “you know what that reminds me of, apples. Wait, hear me out, apples on a pine tree.”
See, that’s asparagus tricking you into thinking that is how it grows, by crafty memeing. When we (and by we I mean all right thinking
asparaguyshumans) know it isn’t.Let’s hope they don’t form an alliance with the “birds”
Fennel too- I always thought the white part was below the earth, like an onion. But no, the whole fennel sits on the earth, on a tippy root that’s underground.
