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Posted: **Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:55 pm**

Darth Fedora wrote:
Katya wrote:
Unit of Energy wrote:My favorite insult is pomme de terre. except that everyone I use it on starts laughing. I really need to learn to say potato in a language not many people know.
Kartoffel?
Peruna?
Terpomo?
BuntÃ ta?
Krumpir?
Kentang?
Kiazi?
Ovy?
Aardappel? (which, oddly enough, means the same thing as pomme de terre)
Ziemniak?
BolbÄ—?
In German, you can call a potato an Erdapfel as well...also the same thing as pomme de terre! I love it when languages do that.

Then what's a Kartoffel? (Oh, and fyi, the technical term for when languages literally translate an idiomatic expression is a calque.)

Posted: **Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:38 pm**

Erdapfel is Austrian German. Kartoffel is German German.

Posted: **Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:51 pm**

katydid wrote:Erdapfel is Austrian German. Kartoffel is German German.

Ahh . . . thanks!

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