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A post by kels @Keally22 with the text “A vanilla latte w soy milk is technically a 3 bean soup but none of yall are ready to talk about that huh??”

  • Bobo The Great
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    3 months ago

    English has a really bad habit of mistranslating things, for some reason latte = coffee+milk, while latte means milk

    • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Its not mistranslated, its caffe latte but the caffe part is cut off for brevity when ordering at a coffee shop.

      • Bobo The Great
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        3 months ago

        I know, what I’m saying is that latte = milk in italian, so if you ordered latte in Italy you would get a glass of milk, that’s what I mean by mistranslation