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For me, it’s “queso”. 🧀

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[–] OwnOh@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago
[–] merjalane@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Сыр (syr)

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[–] ElCrusher@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago
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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yup. Though we call cheese sauce queso.

[–] emogu@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As someone who grew up bilingual, this has caused so much unnecessary confusion in my life. Maybe not queso so much but salsa, which is the word for any kind of sauce in Spanish. If I’m running on autopilot and my wife asks me to pick up tomato salsa I will almost invariably get spaghetti sauce. It’s fucked!

[–] Thrife@feddit.org 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Is this Swiss or Austrian?

[–] PartyPatella@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's Swedish isn't it?

My dad had this brilliant idea for everyone to say "cheese" in the local language every time he took a selfie of us when we were travelling around Europe. Let's just say even though that was years ago in my childhood, I can look through that album and know instantly which photos were taken in Sweden!

[–] PartyPatella@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I was referring to Danish, but indeed it seems the same spelling also applies for Norwegian and Swedish. But quite different pronounciations, I would think. In Danish, you would say "åst" with an "å"- which everyone naturally knows how to pronounce of course.

Haha, yes, that's brilliant. We even do that here from time to time. One indeed does look dapper saying "OOOST".

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

At least plugging them all into Google translate, the pronunciations are actually all pretty similar, with Swedish being the most dissimilar

[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Svorte Sara, that's some stinky shit. Every time we were over to helsingør or køpenhavn my parents bought stinky cheese with them home to ruin the fridge.

[–] CaptainsLog@lemmings.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] wendyz@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ukrainian? That’s so cool!

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[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] Txopi@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

Gazta (in Basque)

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[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I though you where not serious, but in doubt I had a look. TIL!

[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Seemingly a cooking show with industrial shit and a microwave, I don't. It must be british, is it not?

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[–] djmikeale@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

My language is already taken so here's another language where I know the word: 奶酪 (nailao), first character meaning milk, second one I had to look up for the definition: "semi-solid food made from milk"

[–] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
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[–] reallyzen@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago
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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Bob. We call him Bob

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Hours upon hours of pain and farts

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