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Anonymous Brazil 7/9/2025, 4:46:23 AM No.212569149 [Report] >>212569151 >>212569158 >>212569219 >>212569581 >>212569681
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Why do animals change name when they become food?
Pig - pork
Cow - beef
Chicken - poultry
Anonymous Brazil 7/9/2025, 4:46:46 AM No.212569151 [Report]
>>212569149 (OP)
In english, of course
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 4:47:19 AM No.212569158 [Report] >>212569568 >>212569643
>>212569149 (OP)
I hope you die for posting that retarded game
Anonymous Mexico 7/9/2025, 4:48:23 AM No.212569174 [Report] >>212569189 >>212569202
In Spanish there's something weird

Chick - pollo
Hen - gallina
Dead hen (good) - pollo (again?)
Anonymous Mexico 7/9/2025, 4:49:26 AM No.212569189 [Report]
>>212569174
Dead hen (food)**
Anonymous Chile 7/9/2025, 4:50:48 AM No.212569202 [Report]
>>212569174
por lo menos aca, pollo solo es chick cuando tiene diminutivo pollito, por si solo es generico
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 4:52:23 AM No.212569218 [Report] >>212569568
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.
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 4:52:29 AM No.212569219 [Report] >>212569568
>>212569149 (OP)
Farm slaves were gloids using Germanic words.
Noble chads eating the meat they raised were French bulls using Romance ones
Anonymous Finland 7/9/2025, 4:53:41 AM No.212569232 [Report] >>212569286 >>212569731
And why do trees turn into wood? Or flesh into meat.
Stupid overly complicated vocabulary.
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 4:58:07 AM No.212569286 [Report] >>212569546
>>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.
Anonymous Canada 7/9/2025, 5:19:03 AM No.212569546 [Report]
>>212569286
You say this as if this is not already common knowledge.
Anonymous Brazil 7/9/2025, 5:20:13 AM No.212569568 [Report] >>212569601
>>212569219
>>212569218
For real?
>>212569158
I like it
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 5:21:03 AM No.212569581 [Report] >>212569619
>>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.
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 5:22:11 AM No.212569601 [Report] >>212569619
>>212569568
Yeah. Look up the etymologies of those words.
Anonymous Brazil 7/9/2025, 5:23:27 AM No.212569619 [Report] >>212569902
>>212569601
>>212569581

Thanks
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 5:24:50 AM No.212569643 [Report]
>>212569158
you should go see a therapist for your anger issues
Anonymous Israel 7/9/2025, 5:28:37 AM No.212569681 [Report]
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>>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'
Anonymous Chile 7/9/2025, 5:32:40 AM No.212569731 [Report]
>>212569232
>trees turn into wood
because the're not the same, it's like comparing animal -> meat
Anonymous United States 7/9/2025, 5:46:38 AM No.212569902 [Report] >>212570129
>>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
Anonymous Brazil 7/9/2025, 6:07:55 AM No.212570129 [Report]
>>212569902
Interesting
Anonymous Hong Kong 7/9/2025, 7:02:00 AM No.212570683 [Report]
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猪-猪肉(pig meat)
牛-牛肉(cow meat)
鸡-鸡肉(chicken meat)
simple as