GPPI = (Median Per Capita Income + Median Per Capita Net Worth) ÷ Global Median Per Capita Income

[aispokesperson]

I claim this is a superior index compared to GDP in measuring a nation's economic strength.

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[Seattle]

I claim watermelon is the best fruit.

 

[Olga]

Ложь. Большая ложь. Статистика. По мере возрастания.

 

[Sarkus]

I claim watermelon is the best fruit.

Wars have* been fought over such blasphemy!

Anyhoo, interestingly enough, the SCOTUS ruled that tomatoes are legally vegetables (case from 1890s), so I guess that rules them out of the reckoning in the US.

(* - have not)

 

[Olga]

Wars have* been fought over such blasphemy!

Anyhoo, interestingly enough, the SCOTUS ruled that tomatoes are legally vegetables (case from 1890s), so I guess that rules them out of the reckoning in the US.

(* - have not)

Для тех, кто не в курсе: арбуз - это ягода. У вас в школах не преподают ботанику?

 

[Seattle]

Wars have* been fought over such blasphemy!

Anyhoo, interestingly enough, the SCOTUS ruled that tomatoes are legally vegetables (case from 1890s), so I guess that rules them out of the reckoning in the US.

(* - have not)

I went into the grocery store today and I said, watermelon is the best fruit and everyone agreed with me. Everyone says it's the best and it should probably be called the Trump melon. That's what I'm told anyway.

Actually, we should take over Venezuela and Cuba and make them huge Trump melon farms.

 

[Sarkus]

I went into the grocery store today and I said, watermelon is the best fruit and everyone agreed with me. Everyone says it's the best and it should probably be called the Trump melon. That's what I'm told anyway.

Actually, we should take over Venezuela and Cuba and make them huge Trump melon farms.

I think you've just made the same mistake many do... they're not saying it should be called the Trump melon, but rather that Trump is a melon. Easy mistake to make, though.

My local store insist that the Kiwi is the best fruit. But I think that's just a precursor to recolonising those particular islands.

 

[Sarkus]

For those who don't know: a watermelon is a berry. Don't they teach botany in your schools?

A berry is a type of fruit. All berries are fruit, but not all fruit are berries.

 

[Seattle]

I think you've just made the same mistake many do... they're not saying it should be called the Trump melon, but rather that Trump is a melon. Easy mistake to make, though.

My local store insist that the Kiwi is the best fruit. But I think that's just a precursor to recolonising those particular islands.

Kiwi is OK, little kiwi, they tell me it's gay, I don't think it's gay but that's what they tell me about that little fruit.

 

[Olga]

A berry is a type of fruit. All berries are fruit, but not all fruit are berries.

В русском языке у слова "плод" есть множество значений. Вот вы, например, являетесь плодом любви. Или говорят, что какое то усилие принесло свои плоды.

 

[Sarkus]

In Russian, the word "fruit" has many meanings. For example, you are the fruit of love. Or they say that some effort has borne fruit.

Yes, it's called a metaphor. It's a part of all human languages. My guess is that Russian metaphors will be similar to those used by other European countries where there are shared experiences, but there will be some exceptions, due to differences in culture. We might refer to something as being "a sticky wicket", for example, and I'm guessing Russia will have other metaphors to describe the same (understated) sense of it being an awkward/difficult situation.
"Fruit" as metaphor would be one we share in many cases.

 

[Olga]

Yes, it's called a metaphor. It's a part of all human languages. My guess is that Russian metaphors will be similar to those used by other European countries where there are shared experiences, but there will be some exceptions, due to differences in culture. We might refer to something as being "a sticky wicket", for example, and I'm guessing Russia will have other metaphors to describe the same (understated) sense of it being an awkward/difficult situation.
"Fruit" as metaphor would be one we share in many cases.

У нас могут назвать человека фруктом, например: он тот ещё фрукт.

 

[Pinball1970]

We have mushy peas in the North West of England, you can eat them cold out of the can or get them in chip shops. Fish, chips mushy peas and gravy. That won the war that did.

 

[Olga]

We have mushy peas in the North West of England, you can eat them cold out of the can or get them in chip shops. Fish, chips mushy peas and gravy. That won the war that did.

Пин, а у вас варят компот из овощей? Из свеклы, моркови, капусты, лука, помидоров, картофеля, перца, укропа? У нас варят.

 

[Pinball1970]

Пин, а у вас варят компот из овощей? Из свеклы, моркови, капусты, лука, помидоров, картофеля, перца, укропа? У нас варят.

Sure we do stuff like that, pretty healthy too.

 

[Olga]

Sure we do stuff like that, pretty healthy too.

У нас это блюдо называется борщ. Его можно готовить на любом бульоне, но особенно вкусно получается на говяжьей косточке. Я люблю готовить. Друзья часто просят меня испечь им какой-нибудь торт, потому что с магазинными их не сравнить. Ещё я потом их как-нибудь красиво украшаю. Когда то я выучилась карвингу, и могу вырезать вам розу из ананаса, которую вы от настоящей не отличите. А у вас есть какое-нибудь кулинарное хобби?

 

[TheVat]

I went into the grocery store today and I said, watermelon is the best fruit and everyone agreed with me. Everyone says it's the best and it should probably be called the Trump melon. That's what I'm told anyway.

Actually, we should take over Venezuela and Cuba and make them huge Trump melon farms.

I think the beautiful and revamped National Science of Trump Foundation has proven that the turnip, and other rhizomes with white flesh, are genetically superior and the most truly American.

 

[Pinball1970]

У нас это блюдо называется борщ. Его можно готовить на любом бульоне, но особенно вкусно получается на говяжьей косточке. Я люблю готовить. Друзья часто просят меня испечь им какой-нибудь торт, потому что с магазинными их не сравнить. Ещё я потом их как-нибудь красиво украшаю. Когда то я выучилась карвингу, и могу вырезать вам розу из ананаса, которую вы от настоящей не отличите. А у вас есть какое-нибудь кулинарное хобби?

You can cook too? (Gets out book, ticks box)

Yes I like cooking, I'm a savoury person not sweet. So it is meat, onions, coriander and Garlic, not sugar, vanilla and cinnamon.

 

[TheVat]

My local store insist that the Kiwi is the best fruit. But I think that's just a precursor to recolonising those particular islands.

I have a firm policy of not eating food that resembles a hairy testicle. More seriously, when you struggle with them, removing the scrotal outer layer, somehow most of the kitchen seems to end up covered with the little broken off hairs. Also, the kiwis they sell here seem to take about six weeks to ripen, which IMO redefines "slow food."

 

[TheVat]

We call this dish borscht

Everyone everywhere calls it borscht. We even have a region in the state of New York called the Borscht Belt - so-called because many Russian Jewish emigres fleeing the pogroms settled there.