Why do animals change name when they become food?
Pig - pork
Cow - beef
Chicken - poultry

>>212569149 (OP)
In english, of course

>>212569149 (OP)
I hope you die for posting that retarded game

In Spanish there's something weird

Chick - pollo
Hen - gallina
Dead hen (good) - pollo (again?)

>>212569174
Dead hen (food)**

>>212569174
por lo menos aca, pollo solo es chick cuando tiene diminutivo pollito, por si solo es generico

The animal is the Anglo-Saxon word that the peasants who raised it used and the actual food is the word the French nobility used when they ate it.

>>212569149 (OP)
Farm slaves were gloids using Germanic words.
Noble chads eating the meat they raised were French bulls using Romance ones

And why do trees turn into wood? Or flesh into meat.
Stupid overly complicated vocabulary.

>>212569232
That's because English has the lexicons of multiple languages to draw on, and each word develops its own unique sometimes subtle meaning given on how it's used in context. It's a strength, not a weakness.

>>212569286
You say this as if this is not already common knowledge.

>>212569219
>>212569218
For real?
>>212569158
I like it

>>212569149 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl3K63Rbygw
this video answers your question.

the TLDW is that Nobles from france called it one thing and the English serfs called it something else.

>>212569568
Yeah. Look up the etymologies of those words.

>>212569601
>>212569581

Thanks

>>212569158
you should go see a therapist for your anger issues

>>212569149 (OP)
in hebrew its wierd because chicken is
>תרנגולת
'tarnegolet', but when we eat it its
>עוף
'off' which is just 'bird'. and for turkey it's
>הודו
'hodu' which is just 'india'

>>212569232
>trees turn into wood
because the're not the same, it's like comparing animal -> meat

>>212569619
it goes a lot further than just animal/food names. in general, the common/lowbrow word for something in english is the germanic-origin one, and the educated/highbrow word is the latinate (usually via french) one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_and_Latinate_equivalents_in_English

>>212569902
Interesting

猪-猪肉(pig meat)
牛-牛肉(cow meat)
鸡-鸡肉(chicken meat)
simple as