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116 points

“Tuna”

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Please, “Tuna Fish” is my father. Just call me “Tuna”.

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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?

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25 points

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

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9 points

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

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5 points

I guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings

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3 points

That was a great album.

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2 points

How do you install this, then?

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3 points

Off-key.

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20 points

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

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16 points

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

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7 points

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

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5 points

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

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2 points

“North”, I assume

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8 points

Served with pig-mammal bacon?

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7 points

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

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9 points

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?

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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.

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5 points

Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk

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5 points

German for example

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

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2 points

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

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2 points

Human-sapien?

Human-homo?

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6 points

Human-mammal would be the closest taxonomically.

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1 point

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

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1 point

Jay bird

Panda bear

Scarab beetles

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30 points

Why is this a pinned post 😅

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14 points

It mean it’s very important. Lemmy NEED to know.

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2 points

I was kinda drunk when I saw a comment chain in another thread and decided to have a bit of fun ;)

:P

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I was drunk and saw a comment chain in another thread so I decided to have a bit of fun ;)

:P

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17 points

All you crazy foreigners just don’t realize. 'Merica has no regulations, sense, or laws. We call it “Tuna Fish” because just “Tuna” is sawdust and cat liter.

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I consider “tuna fish” to be outdated and regional to the South and maybe Midwest US. I grew up hearing it but at some point started wondering why tf we would say that rather than just tuna, so I’ve made a point to just say tuna since then.

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Huh, I grew up in the South and never realized it wasn’t normal to say tuna fish sandwich. I guess it doesn’t really make sense, but I still kinda like the ring of it

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It is normal, I guess. I grew up with my mother and grandmother saying that. I decided it was silly and I should stop, though.

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