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A broken apart fluffy pancake from Austria served with Marillenröster - something between a Compost and Marmalade made from apricots

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SMillerNL 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SMillerNL 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Understandable, have a nice day

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm no banana, I'm a worm!

-- You, at some point in time
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha they definitely meant compote but here's an interesting fact. Compote comes from French compote which I thought had an accent on the o but apparently doesn't. When French has an accent over a vowel it typically indicates that an s has been dropped from old French, which would have made sense because the og French word was actually composte.

[–] Pogbom 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a French speaker I had never heard of this, but I looked it up and it's indeed the case specifically for circumflex accents (ê, ô, â, î) and not the others.

A neat resource (in French naturally) that I found on this:

https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/23698/lorthographe/accents-trema-et-cedille/accent-circonflexe/alternance-entre-laccent-circonflexe-et-le-s-dans-les-mots-de-meme-famille

[–] kite 5 points 1 year ago

If lemmy has an active TIL community, this would be a fantastic thing to post to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm a native English speaker so I'm sure it's one of those interesting things they taught in school that a native speaker would have no need to learn. But it explains why many English words have an s when the modern French word doesn't since so many words were borrowed into English from Old French.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At the start of the word it's an acute accent. Like in école or état.