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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I thought it was more "apples of the Earth", n'est-ce pas?

[–] Donut@leminal.space 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yup, pommes de terre. In Dutch is "aardappel", which is more literally earthapple. But I will add, the apple part isn't referring to the fruit, but means more like "a spherical object".

Also the French used aardappel to create the word pomme de terre for it in 1716, as they couldn't pronounce the Dutch word.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Spherical pineapples.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

as they couldn't pronounce the Dutch word

I mean I can't blame them, the language's phonosyntactics are very different from French, it's hard to pronounce in general and sounds awful to boot.

[–] Donut@leminal.space 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's funny how Dutch doesn't shy away from loaning French words, despite the difference. Examples are chauffeur, etalage, cadeau, auto and medaille.

I don't agree that aardappel is hard to pronounce in general if you're an English speaker though. Check it out: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/aardappel

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 months ago

Alternative forms

Eerdappel [..] (obsolete)


As Arnhemmer, I don't completely agree.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Too aard to pronounce

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

No, it's like how apple juice is jus de pomme.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I wasn't going for transliteration. "Apples of Earth" doesn't convey the same concept.

[–] CyanideShotInjection@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Not really cause then it would be "pommes de la terre".

For the record, some of us also use the word "patate" which is straight up the equivalent of potato.