Oh, Bev. We may have fallen into the intellectual deep end here. And if you try to grab on to me, we'll both drown.
Oh, Bev. We may have fallen into the intellectual deep end here. And if you try to grab on to me, we'll both drown.
Oh, Bev. We may have fallen into the intellectual deep end here. And if you try to grab on to me, we'll both drown.
Because it’s so people won’t be confused with tuna piano.
I’ll see myself out. 🏃♂️💨
You can tuna piano but you can't piano a tuna.
Chicken of the cave
Apparently, it is an Americanism that refers to the processed tuna flakes in tinned containers.
I don't know anyone over the age of 9 says "tuna fish".
Ha! That's what I call my pet chicken when she's being sassy.
Which, being a chicken bird means 25/8
That's not a typo, she's just extra
The people who say "tuna fish" do so because they heard someone else say it, and are the kind of people to blindly follow others rather than engage in critical inquiry and actively eliminate redundancy.
Intelligent people say neither of those redundancies.
Your message could have been more efficient:
So a less redundant version of your message:
They say "tuna fish" because they heard someone say it, and are the kind who blindly follows rather than engage in critical inquiry and actively eliminate redundancy.
Intelligent people say neither redundancy.
Of course, I'm just poking fun. I don't expect anyone to eliminate all redundancy from their speaking; some of it has use, especially in verbal communication. For example, saying "datil pepper" even though datil also refers to the pepper is useful because someone may not recognize that a datil is a pepper upon hearing it (though you'd be hard pressed to find that scenario with tuna outside of ESL.)
I don't have a particularly strong distaste for redundancy but people blindly saying things without thinking nor any concern toward being readily understood is a bit of a peeve of mine. Particularly, I get offended when people expect one person to handle all of the effort for all sides of a conversation without supplying their sides' tools for doing so. Partly as an example, I have to wonder if you're getting downvoted by people who think that "n times as many as" "n times more than" are the same amount despite the obvious fact that "one time more than" is, by that standard, not at all more than the thing it's compared to. They just refuse to consider that what they're saying is plainly wrong and insist that people learn their wrong way of speaking. Grr.
Anyway, I assume I'm hopping onto the train to Karma Hell with you (as always; people who hate thinking really hate having their "thinking" questioned) so let's meet in the food car and get a sandwich together, yeah? You're already ahead on indignant downvotes so you can buy :P
Around here, people call it sea chicken
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.
Lol. I guess the term 'chicken bird' just didn't cross the pond.
It's "tuna fish". Most everywhere else it's just "tuna", like a "tuna sandwich." 😉
Why don’t we just call it “bombay” instead of “bombay duck”? It’s obviously a duck.
Why isn't it Mumbai?
Sometimes I just want to blaze one with Bev snd chill in a mud bath. But life can't afford me those simple pleasures.
Prickly pear cactus are called tuna (maybe just in Spanish?) --- I wouldn't want to confuse tuna fish with tuna fruit...
Also, I think tuna fish refers to certain preparation, e.g., as used in a tuna fish sandwich. This is in contrast to sushi ("tuna roll") or a tuna steak, which typically don't have the "fish" qualifier.
Because we can't agree on what a fish is.
There's no such thing as a fish indeed.
You'll have to pretend that's Neelix because I don't know how to Photoshop a GIF.
I've got you