Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
I was reading about American knife and fork etiquette (swapping your fork into your right hand after cutting), and so I went to look up YouTube videos to see how this works in practice. For some reason I kept seeing videos with the phrase "fork and knife" in the title, which sounds really unusual and funny to me as somebody who understands Afrikaans 😅 So I looked it up, because it's always been "knife and fork" to me, and... Huh, what is this?! What on earth happened in the noughties?
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Njal
@cryptonjal
Interesting, in Dutch it's also "mes en vork".
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Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
"pass me the fork and knife" sounds way too close to "pass me the fokken knife!"
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Njal
@cryptonjal
I wouldn't be surprised if it sounds like that in certain dialects 😂
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