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Poll: What language do you write your shopping list in?
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Mario Chavez (X)
Mario Chavez (X)  Identity Verified
Local time: 14:34
English to Spanish
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English and Spanish Mar 16, 2015

...it depends on my mood for the day.

I don't like shopping lists, unless I have a very concrete need for certain things.
 
Christopher Schröder
Christopher Schröder
United Kingdom
Member (2011)
Swedish to English
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Who you kidding? Mar 16, 2015

Julian Holmes wrote:

Because a lot of things are alien and don't exist in the English language or are descriptions that are just too long to jot down. Try out these,

buckwheat noodles vs 'soba'
burdock root vs 'gobo'
soy bean curd vs 'tofu'
soy milk whey vs 'yuba'
dark edible seaweed strips vs 'hijiki'
devil's tongue starch vs 'konnyaku'
Kyoto-style chopped vegetables pickled in salt with red shiso leaves vs 'shibazuke'
Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed seasoned with vinegar vs 'mozuku'

The list is endless and they all taste 'umai.'

Small gastronomic edit.

[Edited at 2015-03-16 03:09 GMT]


I bet Heinz Tomato Ketchup ('hitoke'?) is top of the list every week



Mixture of English, Welsh and Swedish in our case

[Edited at 2015-03-16 08:31 GMT]
 
Louise Péron
Louise Péron  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
English to French
Depends on who I am talking to... Mar 16, 2015

... and of the language I can hear in the background at the time of list-making. It's therefore generally a mixture of French and English

Julian Holmes wrote:
buckwheat noodles vs 'soba'
burdock root vs 'gobo'
soy bean curd vs 'tofu'
soy milk whey vs 'yuba'
dark edible seaweed strips vs 'hijiki'
devil's tongue starch vs 'konnyaku'
Kyoto-style chopped vegetables pickled in salt with red shiso leaves vs 'shibazuke'
Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed seasoned with vinegar vs 'mozuku'


What a mouth-watering shopping list!
 
Mario Freitas
Mario Freitas  Identity Verified
Brazil
Local time: 15:34
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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Very curious question Mar 17, 2015

I never though this would actually be a characteristic of all those who speak more than one language, but this questions makes it clear.

Anyway, I do make weird shopping lists in several languages. Simply because the name of some products may be well reduced in one language or another, so it's a lot easier to make the list using the shortest names.

But I always get complaints from my wife and kids when we get there and no one understands sh(*) of what I wrote.
 
Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz
Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz  Identity Verified
Poland
Local time: 20:34
English to Polish
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Polish Mar 22, 2015

Polish, my first language. I could actually catch myself thinking in English about it, but I would never just simply write my shopping list in my second language, nope.
 
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