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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex... that you could just eat it like an apple.

I am sad to say that, although I've heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.

Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire...

Corn.

As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that's the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that's another part of this terminology dumpster fire...the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it...doesn't really.

So... ketchup... is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two... frui-getables.

Great point. "Tomato smoothie" is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn...

Fruigetable.

Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.

    That seems right to me, the... what is that a lower case sigma?

    iirc, thats the sort of... rolling 'zh' sound I was going for...

    ... though I think maybe we just have a natural dialect difference for how how to pronounce vegetable, as you've got the same vowel sound for the last two syllables?

    But anyway, yeah, I think I came up with 'fruigtable' almost 20 years ago, upon first learning how much overlap there is due to all this linguistic silliness... so i choose chaos, and decided to add to it, and now I finally have a relevant time to use the nonsense/compound word, woo!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I only have the most pedestrian understanding of the IPA from a single class in college (which was a long time ago), so I'll admit I just grabbed the IPA off of Wiktionary for "fruit," "vegetable," and "fudge" to bridge between the two. It looks good enough to my eyes to be at least reasonable.

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