Tim BrayHmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”. I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.
bovaz
@bovaz I'm guessing that Italian is very rich in food words? If so, is there something suggesting that a dish is liquid and tasteless?
Michael Newton@[email protected] @[email protected] There's a place in Italy called Fonteblanda which caught my eye as the name can literally be translated as 'the bland spring'. It's not the only or even the most natural translation, but I love the head canon that the person who named it did so accidentally by declaring how tasteless the local spring was.
Anyway... I wouldn't use the term in this context both because it is actually a real place, and because spring water doesn't have the right negative connotations for translation
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@[email protected] @timbray right. That's what I mean. I can't really find the right negative/dismissive Italian word for it, especially among food related ones. I guess we just like and respect our food too much.
@[email protected] @[email protected] mia moglie dice sbobba è forse una parole appropriato
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You can often find me in a fantastic valley ready to talk about rpgs, complain about work, cook an excess of calories and have a drink. (none of this is either metaphor or euphemism). Also @[email protected], but I'm trying to move to using prevalently this. #noai