Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agoWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?message-squaremessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up175arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up165arrow-down1message-squareWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square105fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up67arrow-down4·edit-22 years agoAs far as I know Tuna-fish is only a nth American thing and sounds very weird to my ears. So this vote will likely be Nth America vs the rest. Honestly, why only tuna fish? Salmon-fish? Chicken-bird?
minus-squarechrizbie@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·2 years agoYou can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish
minus-squareivanafterall@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoBut you can tuna fish, so where does that leave us?
minus-squarechrizbie@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoI guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings
minus-squarespongebue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down1·2 years agoIs it really that hard to write the word “north”? Is that even what nth is supposed to mean? I keep reading it as the mathematical “1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th…, nth” and it makes my head hurt
minus-squareNPC@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·2 years agoStill better than calling tuna “tuna fish”
minus-squareℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·2 years ago“tunafish” sounds weird but “nth American” (not first or second or thirteenth but nth) sounds fine?
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years ago‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’ - Oscar Wilde
minus-squareGrimSheeper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoWe don’t talk about 1st America and 2nd America
minus-squareelephantium@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years agoServed with pig-mammal bacon?
minus-squareRBWells@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 years agoWe do have a tuna cactus here that people eat. Nopales are from the Tuna. Prickly pear fruit also. That cactus is often called Tuna here. I mean the fish when I say Tuna though, and would say Prickly Pear cactus. But do hear Tuna often used to mean the plant.
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoHuman-mammal would be the closest taxonomically.
As far as I know Tuna-fish is only a nth American thing and sounds very weird to my ears.
So this vote will likely be Nth America vs the rest.
Honestly, why only tuna fish?
Salmon-fish?
Chicken-bird?
You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish
But you can tuna fish, so where does that leave us?
I guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings
That was a great album.
How do you install this, then?
Off-key.
Is it really that hard to write the word “north”? Is that even what nth is supposed to mean? I keep reading it as the mathematical “1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th…, nth” and it makes my head hurt
Still better than calling tuna “tuna fish”
“tunafish” sounds weird but “nth American” (not first or second or thirteenth but nth) sounds fine?
‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’ - Oscar Wilde
We don’t talk about 1st America and 2nd America
I’d rather get a cow-mammal burger
Served with pig-mammal bacon?
We do have a tuna cactus here that people eat. Nopales are from the Tuna. Prickly pear fruit also. That cactus is often called Tuna here.
I mean the fish when I say Tuna though, and would say Prickly Pear cactus.
But do hear Tuna often used to mean the plant.
Human-sapien?
Human-homo?
Human-mammal would be the closest taxonomically.
Jay bird
Panda bear
Scarab beetles