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I hate the word spicy in the english language. It can mean a number of completely different things: - High in capsacin - Creating some sort of pain or funny s
by golol 4y ago
I hate the word spicy in the english language. It can mean a number of completely different things:
- High in capsacin
- Creating some sort of pain or funny sensation when consumed
- Containing "spices" depending on which definition you use
- Being strongly seasoned/flavourful
- Tasting good
- euroderf 4y agoThe noun "pepper" is pretty badly overloaded too.
- golol 4y agoAnd then "bland" is used as the opposite of "spicy"...
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoI am French and we have the word "piquant" which means "the painful kind". We unfortunately also have the word "épicé" which is like "spicy" in English, there are several meanings. I usually resort to saying "piquant" when I want the painful version and "épicé, mais pas piquant" ("spicy but not the painful kind") when I am talking about the flavour.
- hgsgm 4y ago- High in capsacin Hot or spicy - Creating some sort of pain or funny sensation when consumed Spicy - Containing "spices" depending on which definition you use Spiced - Being strongly seasoned/flavourful Spiced, Seasoned - Tasting good None of these.
- golol 4y agoIm not saying that one can not differentiate these things, but people absolutely use spicy/spiced to refer to all of these