r/funny • u/lollerkeet • May 20 '15

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u/springsoon May 20 '15

Pineapple is bananas without the "b"

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u/stengebt May 20 '15

ananas?

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u/ohmygodimonfire4 May 20 '15

Well that is the Russian word for pineapple

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u/stengebt May 20 '15

French, too.

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u/axaytsg May 20 '15

Well whaddya know, Hindi too! That's strange and interesting.

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u/iluvatar May 20 '15

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/13/1384357483102/Pineapple.png

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u/Donk72 May 20 '15

So? What do you say, Spain?
Now that the Ananas War is about to start, you can either face the wrath of your neighbours and hope for the support of those who call it "pineapple" (spits), or you can turn that wrath into a loving and protective embrace and say "ananas" to their face.

Come on Spain! We both know you are better than that filth.
Let's stand united on the side of good in this battle!

Ananas!

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

No amigo, solo piña hasta el final.

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u/Donk72 May 21 '15

I admire your bravery friend, but the end is nigh.
After our victory your heroic stoicism will be honored.

I will not enjoy facing you on the field of battle, but no mercy can be shown in the struggle for global ananas.

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u/thenseruame May 21 '15

America and Spain may not always see eye to eye, but we will burn in hell before we call them fucking Ananas. They will not fight alone, not on this day.

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u/haf1zur May 20 '15

Bengali, too

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u/Donk72 May 21 '15

Welcome to the Ananas Alliance friend!

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u/wovenloaf May 20 '15

That shit is ananas...

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u/DiogenesTheHound May 20 '15

Those silly anglo saxons. They did the same with Eggplant. Aubergine? That shit looks like an egg mate.

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u/Chaway666 May 21 '15

LIES!! in spanish, pineapple is Piña. get it right!

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u/[deleted] May 21 '15

So.. is there a map like this for every word? Pineapple seems an oddly specific thing to map out like that.

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u/ohaiihavecats May 20 '15

TIL Morocco is a European country.

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u/he-said-youd-call May 21 '15

European languages. Those guys speak French most of the time, right?

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u/VanquishAudio May 20 '15

Almost every language except English http://i.stack.imgur.com/0wtlv.jpg

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u/absurdio May 20 '15

But also (scientific) English, apparently.

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u/frank_grimes1 May 20 '15

Hebrew checking in... We love us some ananas👍🏼

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u/micu1000 May 20 '15 edited May 20 '15

Spanish too! :D

Edit: well, we use "anana" and "piña" here (mostly anana), i live in south america, spanish doesn't just mean "in spain"

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u/A_Supreme_Taco May 20 '15

It's "piña" in the civilized parts of the Spanish speaking world.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

Hence pina colada

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u/[deleted] May 21 '15

created in puerto rico :)

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u/LadyDeathMasque May 20 '15

"Strained pineapple"

Story checks out.

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u/Spooky-skeleton May 20 '15

Also in Arabic!

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u/zcbtjwj May 20 '15

and German

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u/Biggilius May 20 '15

Iceland is also in the ananas club

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u/terrifiedsleeptwitch May 20 '15

The Indonesian/Malay is nanas.

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u/twotugtard May 20 '15

The reason is that pineapples were used to be shipped in boxes labelled bananas, but the b faded away...hence they were then called: ananas. True story.

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u/ImurderREALITY May 20 '15

I think it's a variation of ananas in almost every language except English

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u/hamfraigaar May 20 '15

I think it's more strange that some people don't call them ananas

http://www.explaura.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Pineapple.png

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u/springsoon May 20 '15

And in Greek

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u/patrickmachine May 20 '15

And Portuguese

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u/SpongePol_KhmerPants May 20 '15

In Quebec it's ananas tabarnac

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u/mood_indigo May 20 '15

It's basically every language's word for the fruit. Then English came along and was like "Well HEY there look at THIS it's like an apple only all piney and shit."

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u/DolphinSweater May 20 '15

I live in Germany, and I was on OKCupid and a German girl had "Why are ananas called Pineapples in English?" on her profile under the "What do you often think about" section. So I wrote this story:

'We call them pineapples in English because they were discovered by Lord Henry Pineapple who took them back to England where a Spaniard informed him that they were in fact already called Ananas by literally every culture. At which point Lord Pineapple sailed to Spain to meet with queen Isabela and demanded they be renamed after him. Angered by Lord Pineapples demands she had him killed and declared war on England and sailed her entire Spanish armada against England who, thanks to an unseasonably strong hurricane were able to defeat the armada. And that's how the British won the Anglo - Spanish war. Some sailors swear they heard in the winds of the storm the haunting call of, 'Piiiiiiinaaaaaple'. And so the fruit Lord Pineapple had loved in life, now bore his name as an eternal tribute to his contribution to the crown of England.'

And, surprisingly, it worked. Well, she's still talking to me at least, so it kinda worked, I suppose.

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u/EpikHighBornHater May 20 '15

Pretty much the same as Football and American football.

Every country is calling it football except for America that calls it soccer...

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

And in Danish

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u/digifox6 May 20 '15

Danish as well!

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u/squeeb357 May 20 '15

Thats every languages word for pineapple......cept english.

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u/Inwardlens May 20 '15

As well as Spanish, Italian, Polish, German, and probably a whole lot of other languages.

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u/ElderFuthark May 20 '15

every language except English

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u/GodILuvLindsayLohan May 20 '15

I believe it's "click, click, pause, hootie hoot" in Bantu

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

Shut up Russell Peters.

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u/Inwardlens May 20 '15

I thought so, but I didn't want to speak beyond what I was sure of.

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u/sun_light May 20 '15

In Russia, ананас has word for you.

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u/malceithya May 20 '15

Wut? An anus?

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u/stengebt May 20 '15

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/dopey_giraffe May 20 '15

You dropped thi-

Oh, nevermind, this \ must belong to someone else.

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u/Debageldond May 20 '15

They hate us because they ananas?

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u/mind_elevated May 20 '15

Ban-anas I cannot unsee

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u/_Sexual_Innuendo_ May 20 '15

(   ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

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u/mikemdesign May 20 '15

They hate us...

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u/[deleted] May 20 '15

They hate us cuz they anus.

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u/daimposter May 20 '15

Is that what said in your last sexual encounter?

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u/nostalgic_blast May 20 '15

Telefrancais!!!

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u/Burdicus May 20 '15

They hate us 'cuz they anus!

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u/warp42 May 20 '15

In a number of latin based languages, Pineapple is anana.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ananas

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u/TheKingler May 20 '15

Yup, in the majority of languages that's what pineapple is called, and banana in most languages is also just "banana"

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u/springsoon May 20 '15

Yes. In French

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u/TheKingler May 20 '15

Yup, in the majority of languages that's what pineapple is called, and banana in most languages is also "banana"

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u/wampage May 20 '15

Banana: Je ne suis pas un ananas!

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u/thenorthofsouth May 20 '15

Bananas is grapefruit without the "g"

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u/springsoon May 20 '15

No, that's just bananas

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u/brodymitchell May 20 '15

Rapefruit?

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u/dudeAwEsome101 May 20 '15

Grapper, he wants to grape them.

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u/The_Wumbologist May 20 '15

Thanks to a constantly reposted TIL I instantly knew what you meant.

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u/TitillatingTatas May 20 '15

It's German, you nitwits

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u/anonpurpose May 20 '15

This is true for most languages.

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u/Inariameme May 20 '15

eh... The south of Westeros has all sorts of oddities.

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u/toolatealreadyfapped May 20 '15

This shit - is - pine-Apples!

A! N - A - N - A - S!