How do you pronounce "potato?"
I'm from the USA, and I go for pə'teɪtəʊ. I've lived and/or worked in Central America, Brazil, Japan, and Korea, so I realized I've learned a lot of damn words for "potato" over the years. Results are a reflection of native language of forum users... assuming I covered them all. SPOILER: I DIDN'T
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in spain we say patata, also we say patata when we takes pictures idk why (the cheese one its kinda a smile, but patata doesnt make any sense xD)
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In italian, "patata" also means "pussy", or "nuts/balls" for the plural "patate", and a lot of other things depending on the context and place.
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Kurwa, I missed Polish! And that is the only Polish word I learned.
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I forgot most of Europe. And Arabic. And Turkish.
Thought I'd covered most of the Steam player base. I was so young and naive when I made this thread.
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All that half hour ago ;) Don't worry it's almost pronounced the same as the Russian one, so I'll just vote for that. I'm also interested how most people will answer about the main question.
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Though I'm American, I love Kartoffel and other variants. (linguist)
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Katakana is a sin :v.
PS: Apparently... Jaga is the result of playing the telephone game with the word "Jakarta"... Imo is just the Japanese word for root vegetables. The more you know!
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I did not know that. I looked up the Chinese characters for this and saw that it is basically something that would be like "dirt bean" in Japanese. Spot on.
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There's a lot of different names for potato in Chinese...
It's Tudou 土豆 in Beijing (.. lol i just typed tsuchimame because I couldn't be bothered to switch keyboards -_-)
According to Wikipedia...
In Hebei it's 山药蛋.
In Western China it's 洋芋.
In parts of Eastern China it's 洋番芋 or 洋山芋.
In Guangzhou/Hong Kong it's 薯仔.
In Fujian it's called 番仔薯.
In Taiwan, we call it 馬鈴薯. :v
It's also used in Japan, but pronounced as ばれいしょ
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Ziemniak, too. But don't you forget about kartofel and pyra!
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Oh so ''cartof'' it's a bulgarian word? never knew,lol.
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If we use the Latin alphabet to write down the Bulgarian word "картоф", will get exactly "cartof'.:)
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Pretty interesting, i knew that we have some slavic words,but not really the potato . ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
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According to Victor Stevenson (Woorden, 1998) in the Romanian language words with Bulgarian origin are 50%. So the chance to meet such coincidence is great. :)
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This is the conclusion of Stevenson, if you owning the book you can see it on page 171, I only quoted him.
But this is normal, given the history and interaction between all Balkan peoples.
We all take something from our neighbors. :)
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Never heard of Stevenson,or his book,and i could find any info about him,or his book on google,i don't what/who are you talking about,but 50% slavic words in romanian language is way to much,yes we have some slavic influence,but as i said it's 15-25%(some studies to 12-14%). And yep,every balkan country has lot of things from their neighbours.
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The book is old, that is why you do not find much info about it. I think this is the last edition http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/507101.The_World_of_Words.
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He doesn't look as a person to trust,nor his book.
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Hey, we finally got a Korean person in here! 감사, 감자
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Does somebody really think that a potato is his/her papa? The real father must be really sad ;-;
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I can't find a single "las mamas y los papas fritas" on Google searches.
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Diacritics make a world of difference in Spanish.
Cono (cone) -> Coño (pussy)
Líquido (liquid) -> Liquido (I kill)
Mate (a type of infusion) -> Maté (I killed)
Papa (potato) -> Papá (dad)
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Patata, btw batata is a sweet potato, a different vegetable
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It still depends on the language. Batata can still mean "regular" potato.
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Sweet potato is natural GMO. Run for your lives! :D
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Decisions, decisions. Potato, potato.
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