The last word of your mother tongue you have learnt ?

[dEhiN]

Why would that be suspect?

I guess because according to those same sources (at least Dictionary.com), kari in Tamil means 'sauce'. Perhaps that's what it used to mean at one point, but afaik kari in Tamil just means curry: a particular style of cooking / dish. I'm not sure what word would be used for sauce although I would guess sothi?

EDIT: And by "dessert-like dish," do you mean பாயசம்? I think I see that translated into English as "rice pudding" (even if it's completely different from Western-style rice puddings) or in Indian English as "kheer" (from Hindi).

Not quite; I've seen the translation as "rice pudding" as well, but I know it's actually better translated as "sago pudding" even if most English speakers might be like what the hell is sago (at which point I would be like look it up!). But for me, "rice pudding" has the word "pudding" in it, and for me a pudding is a dessert dish (with the exception of "Yorkshire pudding" but I see that as a specific Britishism that's found it's way into North American vernacular, in the same way "fish and chips" have). But maybe I've just never eaten rice pudding that's not been essentially a dessert dish?

[vijayjohn]

I guess because according to those same sources (at least Dictionary.com), kari in Tamil means 'sauce'.

Whenever I see that, I never take it very seriously. Maybe they're just trying to say that it can mean the saucy part of a curry in Tamil. What I've read so far about what it does mean in Tamil seems to suggest instead that it can mean quite a wide variety of things in (some varieties of?) Tamil.

Not quite; I've seen the translation as "rice pudding" as well, but I know it's actually better translated as "sago pudding" even if most English speakers might be like what the hell is sago (at which point I would be like look it up!).

Why is it better translated as "sago pudding"?

Oh, do y'all actually make it out of sago? This is honestly the first time I've ever heard of that. We make it out of rice, coconut, vermicelli, or even dal, but not sago.

[Karavinka]

Congee is the English word used in China. The Chinese should decide how Chinese things are translated into English.
From now on, tofu will be "beancurd" and char siu or however the fuck you spell it will be "BBQ pork".

Tofu is Tofu is Tofu. So are Daikon and also Zen Buddhism.

Oh I must be the worst Korean ever.

[dEhiN]

Not quite; I've seen the translation as "rice pudding" as well, but I know it's actually better translated as "sago pudding" even if most English speakers might be like what the hell is sago (at which point I would be like look it up!).

Why is it better translated as "sago pudding"?

Oh, do y'all actually make it out of sago? This is honestly the first time I've ever heard of that. We make it out of rice, coconut, vermicelli, or even dal, but not sago.

You make payasam out of dal??!! That's the first time I've heard that!! (Although now I just looked it up, and apparently some people use mung beans, so is that what you're referring to?) I have seen payasam with vermicelli in it, though. And I honestly thought it by default was made with sago. But it seems like that's just a Sri Lankan tradition. Here's a pretty traditional Sri Lankan recipe. Though many times my family has made it without the coconut milk and jaggery.

[vijayjohn]

You make payasam out of dal??!! That's the first time I've heard that!! (Although now I just looked it up, and apparently some people use mung beans, so is that what you're referring to?)

Yeah, I think it's mung beans.

EDIT: Well, it's apparently mung dal, which is the mung beans with their outer covering taken off.

[linguoboy]

phoretic
necromenic

[OldBoring]

And in Japan congee is gruel.

Oh! I forgot. It's not bubble tea. It's pearl milk tea.
It's not cheongsam. It's qipao.
It's not chow mein. It's stir-fried noodles.

Tofu is Tofu is Tofu.

Tofu is what pretentious hipster vegan gweilos eat.
Beancurd is what the Chinese eat as a traditional food.
Don't know what word they use in English in Japan and Korea.

Daikon

"White turnip".
Btw, in Italy it's called "rapa cinese" (Chinese turnip) or "ravanello cinese" (Chinese radish).

Zen Buddhism.

Chan Buddhism sounds like an anime, so nope.

[OldBoring]

They write <beancurd> in China? Not <bean curd>?

From what I remember, both. Curiously, most Google results about "beancurd" are from Singapore.

[vijayjohn]

And in Japan congee is gruel.

In India, too (with the caveat that Indian congee and Chinese congee are probably completely different things).

Chan Buddhism sounds like an anime, so nope.

Chan Buddhism sounds like Jackie Chan's Buddhism.

[הענט]

And in Japan congee is gruel.

Oh! I forgot. It's not bubble tea. It's pearl milk tea.
It's not cheongsam. It's qipao.
It's not chow mein. It's stir-fried noodles.

Tofu is Tofu is Tofu.

Tofu is what pretentious hipster vegan gweilos eat.
Beancurd is what the Chinese eat as a traditional food.
Don't know what word they use in English in Japan and Korea.

Daikon

"White turnip".
Btw, in Italy it's called "rapa cinese" (Chinese turnip) or "ravanello cinese" (Chinese radish).

Zen Buddhism.

Chan Buddhism sounds like an anime, so nope.

Chan Buddhism Mecha Patriot Mega Tycoon (insert katakana)

Episode 1: Don't toy with me. My power wide open, attack attack Yeah!!!

[linguoboy]

drop dirty test positive for illegal substances

[linguoboy]

hagiotherapy

[IpseDixit]

guêpière

[vijayjohn]

And one of the meanings of that word (in fact, the only one in French) is what in English is called a "basque," which is borrowed from French "basque," where it apparently doesn't really mean the same thing as English "basque."

[Osias]

[linguoboy]

woggle neckerchief slide

[linguoboy]

erotematic interrogatory

[linguoboy]

sett a type of paving stone. (I think most speakers would not distinguish these from "cobbles", although apparently the different is that cobbles aren't quarried. I've mostly come across them in Europe so until recently the only distinctive name I knew for them was kinderkopjes.)

[dEhiN]

conglomerate (geology) a rock made predominantly of cobbles

[IpseDixit]

corifeo - main exponent of a political or cultural movement