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Re:English vocabulary test – how many words do you know? on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:52AM (#46272371)
Scored 65% with native speakers and 99.9% with non-native. Guess I can make myself understood. I didn’t even take the test that seriously, but there were some obscure words I’m sure no one uses anymore
Re:iPhone SE: The One-Eyed King? on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:45AM (#23005654)
Lost it at "Use dongle purse."
Thanks, I didn't know that. The distinction does not exist in portuguese (my native language). The word for jam is "compota", and I don't know of any portuguese sweet like what you describe as compote.
To add to your examples, in portuguese (and no other language I know of) the word "exquisit" (in portuguese: esquesito) means something odd, awkward. In all other languages it means a delicacy or something really delicious. I'm sure we were the ones to corrupt the meaning, perhaps for the common folk those delicacies were so rare or unattainable that they would be "odd" food.
In portuguese those would be: compota, geleia, conservas (preserved in sugar syrup) and marmelada. I think compote and jam are the same thing.
> meaning "sweet apple"

Funny thing is it's not sweet at all, more like a very bitter apple.