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Delicatessen itself is a French loanword (délicatesse) in German that's wrongly pluralized, it should be délicatesses not delicatessen. So it's like doubly wro

by carlmr 2y ago

Delicatessen itself is a French loanword (délicatesse) in German that's wrongly pluralized, it should be délicatesses not delicatessen. So it's like doubly wrong.

shmeeed 2y ago
I'm waiting for myself to one day muster the courage to order "dos expressis" at a restaurant in Italy. But I fear the repercussions.
- airstrike 2y ago
  https://imgur.com/8pQYSUd https://imgur.com/8pQYSUd
  - amatic 2y ago
    Every time you order an "expresso", an Italian falls off a vespa.
725686 2y ago
Touché!
mytailorisrich 2y ago
But according to Wikipedia, the French délicatesse is an Italian loanword (delicatezza)...
- crooked-v 2y ago
  It's loan words all the way down. We just don't have enough info about prehistory to complete the chain all the way back to local variants of caveman speak.
  - carlmr 2y ago
    Cavemen would really hate our quintuple pluralization.