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minus-squareRachelhazideas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoAsking what the Spanish word for tortilla is a valid question. If you ordered a ‘tortilla’ in Spain, you would get an omelette, not a flatbread. This comment section is like the bellcurve meme.
minus-squaredriving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·16 days agoTortilla is tortilla in Spanish. Only in Spain, were just a fraction of Spanish speakers live, tortilla is a potato dish.
minus-squareheartSagan5@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoPotatoes, omelettes, and flatbread? Eh, it’s still food.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-216 days agoYeah, false friends (loan words that don’t mean what they mean in the original language) are super common.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·15 days agoMixing those up would certainly be embarassing, though :D Example from German: “sensible” is not “sensibel” also “handy” and “Handy”
Asking what the Spanish word for tortilla is a valid question.
If you ordered a ‘tortilla’ in Spain, you would get an omelette, not a flatbread.
This comment section is like the bellcurve meme.
Tortilla is tortilla in Spanish. Only in Spain, were just a fraction of Spanish speakers live, tortilla is a potato dish.
Potatoes, omelettes, and flatbread? Eh, it’s still food.
Yeah, false friends (loan words that don’t mean what they mean in the original language) are super common.
“embarrassed” is not “embarazo”
Mixing those up would certainly be embarassing, though :D
Example from German: “sensible” is not “sensibel”
also “handy” and “Handy”