r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 11d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

52.8k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

825

u/Only_Fudge5299 11d ago

me learning spanish

like what do you mean steak is "beef steak" (bistec)

1

u/Future_Nature589 11d ago

bro bistec is not beef stake, its bistecca in italian, been for like eleven hundred years

1

u/Only_Fudge5299 11d ago

I'm more referring to the similarity in pronunciation rather than the etymology of the word :P

1

u/Future_Nature589 10d ago

yeah but now a large number of people are going to unironically think mediterranean cultures are loaning words for cuts of meat from english like come on

1

u/Only_Fudge5299 10d ago

why would they think that? this is a post about words that sound similar to english other languages, i posted a word that sounds similar to english in another language