Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Funny@sh.itjust.works · 2 months agoWhere did you think they were coming from?lemmy.dbzer0.comimagemessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-square「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoFunny how English has “Beef”, “Pork”, “Lamb” when in some languages its just [The Word for the Animal]+[The Word for “Meat”] Literally, your language influences how you think. My “native” languages are Cantonese and Mandarin and I always knew where the meat came from, like its literally in the word itself. [牛肉，豬肉，羊肉]
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoin french it’s just the name of the animal. Here’s a cow. eat cow. A pig ? eat pig. Maybe it makes it easier to mentally link together the live animal and its meat.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months agoIn english it’s just the french word… beef, pork, etc… All french. It’s because carninsts are extremely privileged to the point that they were french aristocracy in england.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 months ago Funny how English has Those are not actually English words. “Pork” is from French at least. It’s a euphemism for the english “swine”. Meat is a luxury for the extremely privileged. Youtube short on topic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/63DYCz9P1XM
Funny how English has
“Beef”, “Pork”, “Lamb”
when in some languages its just
[The Word for the Animal]+[The Word for “Meat”]
Literally, your language influences how you think.
My “native” languages are Cantonese and Mandarin and I always knew where the meat came from, like its literally in the word itself. [牛肉，豬肉，羊肉]
in french it’s just the name of the animal. Here’s a cow. eat cow. A pig ? eat pig.
Maybe it makes it easier to mentally link together the live animal and its meat.
In english it’s just the french word… beef, pork, etc… All french.
It’s because carninsts are extremely privileged to the point that they were french aristocracy in england.
Those are not actually English words. “Pork” is from French at least. It’s a euphemism for the english “swine”. Meat is a luxury for the extremely privileged.
Youtube short on topic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/63DYCz9P1XM