qyron @ qyron @sopuli.xyz

European guy, weird by default.

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You're forgetting octopi, otters, squids, and maybe ants or other social insect.

Sadness and potatoes do not combine.

I followed the thread just to see where it landed and I was not disappointed.

And for a well travelled and knowleadgeable person, you give off a very narrow view.

So, in one corner, we have an authoritarian regime, well established, known for violently suppressing minorities and heavilly surveill the citizens, take over territories, and constantly menace and threaten others, while thriving by manipulating money flow world wide and internally using slave work to run their industries.

On the other, we have the exact same thing, but flag and language changes. And classical political quadrant.

You can loathe a regime and have nothing against the people underneath it. Chinese were lead into an authoritarian regime through force, Americans were subtly led to the same through fear. The original premise: a land of freedom, for the people.

If we can not agree both countries are, essentially, the same, then one of us is refusing to aknowledge facts, willingly.

I wouldn't consider it a loaned word; we beated it into submission by bastardizing the writing and slightly butchering the pronounciation. But if it works, loan word it is.

P.S

I forgot I was already told it is called a calque.

That is exactly what it is. Good intuition. In my language, it is called estrangeirismo.

Pancakes = pan + cakes

We have the portmanteu. Not all is lost.

Panquecas

You know the word for the import and adaptation of a foreign word into another language?

The thing is, unless you eat unreasonable amounts of potatoes, you wouldn't. Potatoes are a good food. And very flexible in terms of preparing.

I love my country but the last craze I heard from a national chain of supermarkets was having a prepaid card, that by pre-paying €100 or more you get an added 10%. Nah. But people love it.

Grab some small potatoes and throw them into something you can put in the oven. After washing the tubers, salt them heavily. No. Even more. No. More than that. Yes. That's it. Perfection.

Set the oven between 150 and 180 degrees Celsius and roast the potatoes. You want to see the skin starting to parch, loosening from the flesh, and slightly browning. The potatoes are boilling in their own juices, so they are going to end fluffy. Twenty to thirty minutes in the oven should suffice.

While the potatoes are in the oven, go get a small pot, three cloves of garlic and, if you can manage, a twig of rosemary. Smash the garlic, unpeeled, put a generous amount of olive oil in the pot and fry the cloves, until golden, along with the rosemary. Remove the solids with a spoon after fried. You now have aromatized olive oil.

Take the spuds from the oven, brush the excess salt off, set them on a board and give them a light tap. You should hear a pop as the skin breaks. Go ahead. Let out that pent up aggression. Done? Good.

Put the potatoes on your plate, drizzle with the olive oil, sprinkle some black pepper and, if you have it, a touch of nutmeg. Fresh; the powdered one is almost flavourless and is more expensive. Buy a whole nut.

Congratulations.

You just made batatas a murro (punched potatoes). Enjoy with some bread and, of you are a drinker, a glass of red wine. Peasants food is the best food.

Is this a challenge? Because I'll cook you potatoes for a whole month and you will eat it and enjoy it.

You'd be amazed. A local supermarket tried to set up a loyalty scheme where you would automatically round up to next unit and hold that extra on the customers account as a credit balance for next purchase. People loved it. Until it went bust with money they never returned.

Panquecas. Literally a portmanteau of the english word.

Nice. By excess or default? Because by excess, seems like you actively pay more.

I can't really recall the exact costs but I know every single coin we mint is more expensive than the value it carries.

Assuming Canada would switch to the Euro, yes. You're referring to Canada also doing something to "block" the scummy x.99 prices, hence eliminating the 0,01 coin, right?

That is a good number

What about printing head replacement?

The denominations are fixed: 0.01, 0.02, 0.05, 0.10, 0.20, 0.50, 1 and 2 for coins, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 and 500 for bills (although I've read the 200 and 500 had ceased production).

Every country can mint coins with bespoke faces, even limites editions, for commemorations and special events. Spain uses the Sagrada Familia for their lower denomination coins and the king's image for higher, Greece reproduced an ancient dracma in their 1€ coin, Italy as used the Vitruvian Man, France has the Republic in their coins, etc. Enough room for each country to express their roots and values.

I'm fairly sure that violates a few EU directives...

This is going to be a blast.