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For me, it’s “queso”. 🧀

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[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Thrife@feddit.org 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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Juust (estonian)

[–] PartyPatella@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 days 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 15 points 3 days 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".

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[–] CaptainsLog 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (4 children)
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[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Das ist Käse.

Btw: This saying is used in case something is stupid :)

[–] notso@feddit.org 15 points 3 days ago

Käse (Germany)

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Kaas.

Fun fact: New York was founded by the Dutch. A curse word for a Dutch guy was "Jan Kaas", which changed over the years to "Yankees".

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.

I've also heard that 'gringo' derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)

I've heard that 'fuck' is an acronym for 'fornication under consent of the king'

All nonsense of course.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Not all etymologies are lies, words do have origins.

Just because you heard some stories which were false doesn't mean all stories are false.

On this wiki page it is explained that linguistics do believe the word Yankee comes from Jan Kees or Jan Kaas. It explains it can also come from the name Janneke, which is a new to me.

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[–] peterg75@discuss.online 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] noolu@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

formaggio 🤌

[–] OwnOh@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago
[–] RicoPeru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

natively, cheese and queso

also, queijo in my third language, and formaggio, fromage, ser, сыр, and queixo (not fluent)

then, in the languages i wanna know more of: チーズ、奶酪/起司,جبنة

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[–] jaiden@lemmy.today 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Kaas!🇧🇪

[–] Txopi@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

Gazta (in Basque)

[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")

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[–] SonofaBixcuit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

my parents’ language, we say 奶酪 or جبنة

growing up, from others it’d be ser or queso.

in my Grandpa’s language would say: גבינה but he also spoke arabic

(i only know a little Chinese and Arabic. i can write a little in Chinese but can’t write in Arabic at all.)

[–] aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 days ago

Queijo (PT-BR)

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

芝士 (it's pronounced similar to cheese in English)

In Mandarin: zhishi
In Cantonese: zisi

[–] gorkur@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Zodarr@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

[–] _Lemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] h54@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] tpyoman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago
[–] merjalane@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Сыр (syr)

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[–] altasshet@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

We call it the same thing as butter. Shit gets confusing sometimes

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