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[–] 59 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

The word avocado comes from the Spanish aguacate, which derives from the Nahuatl (Mexican) word āhuacatl, which goes back to the proto-Aztecan *pa:wa. In Molina's Nahuatl dictionary "auacatl" is given also as the translation for compañón "testicle", and this has been taken up in popular culture where a frequent claim is that testicle was the word's original meaning. This is not the case, as the original meaning can be reconstructed rather as "avocado" – rather the word seems to have been used in Nahuatl as a euphemism for "testicle".

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That's a bit of a word salad, but I assume it's just saying that it's a coincidental euphemism. Like if a non-English speaker said "Did you know? The English term melon baller literally translates to breast testicler". It's not like it's a high bar.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Orchids are named after testicles.

    More to the point, words have multiple meanings. NdGT is a troll. Huevos means eggs primarily but secondarily means testicles. Ahuacatl means avocado primarily, but had the second meaning too.

    I wouldn't refer to huevos revueltos (scrambled eggs) as scrambled testicles.

    Dude's a pedant for science accuracy but little else.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago*

    Dude spread bad misconceptions even in his Cosmos remake. Like saying Rome fell because of lead in the water and saying Giordano Bruno was killed because he was an astronomer.

    I mean, surely other people wrote that stuff and he just read it, but still, if you're gonna correct tiny things people say (apparently as a job) you'd think to fact check

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Flowers are basically sex organs. Mushrooms are fungal erections...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    "avocado" sounds like "lawyer" in Spanish: abogado

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Neil, is that really you?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I’ve heard of blue balls but never green balls

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    [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And Cashew Nut stands for the time that u blow a stinky 80yo grandpa for cash that you desperately need to prevent yourself from being homeless.

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