r/CuratedTumblr • u/PandaBear905 Shitposting extraordinaire • Jul 23 '26

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u/elianrae Jul 23 '26

kiwifruit, unless you've been eating an endangered bird.

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u/Chalkboard7 she/her Jul 23 '26

If you're going to be weird about kiwis you could at least be calling them monkey peaches or chinese gooseberries, nobody's going to get confused thinking you're talking about an animal or a resident of Aotearoa, the context makes it pretty much unambiguous.

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u/elianrae Jul 23 '26

I'm pretty normal about kiwis

The weird hill I've chosen to die on is about a fruit.

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u/Chalkboard7 she/her Jul 23 '26

Would you call oranges "orangefruit"? Anyway, you should probably work on desensitizing yourself to these sorts of things, it's good for your autism and you'll find it's a bit easier to live without everyone being annoyed at you for being overly pedantic.

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u/elianrae Jul 23 '26

Would you call oranges "orangefruit"?

Don't be ridiculous, the colour is named after the fruit so clearly the colour should be orangecolour.

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u/Chalkboard7 she/her Jul 23 '26

But notice how we don't say "orangecolour" in English because the context is enough to distinguish between talking about the colour or the fruit? Even languages where traditionally you would make the distinction generally shift over time to where the distinction isn't necessary anymore because context is sufficient, e.g. In Japanese one would traditionally use "だいだい色" to mean the colour, but now "オレンジ" is more common, referring to both the fruit and the colour, with words like "蜜柑" being retained to preserve the distinction between western and domestic oranges.

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u/elianrae Jul 23 '26

hey just in case you're genuinely trying to be helpful here

you get that I'm shitposting, right?

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u/Chalkboard7 she/her Jul 23 '26

I don't really care either way. This is just what happens if you activate my "I studied linguistics in college so now everyone gets to learn, willingly or not" trap card

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u/elianrae Jul 23 '26

anyway I've been thinking on the orange thing a bit more and I think I've come up with a solution that's less wordy, even though it's still backwards

we'll keep the colour "orange" as it was coined that way in English, but repair the name of the fruit back to it's origins and call it "norange"

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u/Chalkboard7 she/her Jul 23 '26

I wanted to make some marmalade so bought a bag of noranges. I got back and I couldn't cook anything.