Sean@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?message-squaremessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up193file-text
arrow-up193message-squareWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?Sean@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square98fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9·10 months agoNot the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword. Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name Do they? Which ones?
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-210 months agoHungarian here. Probably it would sound weird without the ‘fish’ bit, since we call it ‘tonhal’ (‘hal’ meaning fish). I just can’t imagine someone offering some tuna to me, asking ‘Ton?’. EDIT: However, in English, I call it tuna, not tuna fish.
minus-squarev_krishna@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoDanish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk
Not the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword.
Do they? Which ones?
Hungarian here. Probably it would sound weird without the ‘fish’ bit, since we call it ‘tonhal’ (‘hal’ meaning fish). I just can’t imagine someone offering some tuna to me, asking ‘Ton?’.
EDIT: However, in English, I call it tuna, not tuna fish.
German for example
Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk