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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @psychosage 17 Aug freebie \ on: Fun Fact Friday- Best Fact gets 10k sats meta
I have been dabbling in learning over 10 languages and this is a little fun fact that seems apparent from all this learning I've done: nouns for (most often) technological innovations are generally the same across languages based on the globally dominant language of the time.
If it is not distinct to a region, it will have its own unique name.
Example: Pizza
Zulu: ipizza
Scots Gaelic: piotsa
Spanish: pizza
Russian: пицца (phonetically still sounds like 'pizza')
Chinese: 比萨 (pi-sa)
Arabic: بيتزا (bit-za)
Not original, therefor different in most languages: Bread
Zulu: isinkwa
Scots Gaelic: aran
Spanish: pan
Russian: хлеб (khleb)
Chinese: 面包 (Miànbāo)
Arabic: خبز (khubz)