troglodyte_mignon

looks like the output of extreme gastro-intestinal distress

I love the way you describe it, ha ha. It seems to be pretty spicy, from what I’m reading?

If think it’s pretty good! I can’t find any where I live, unfortunately, I’ll have to try to make it myself one of these days. Chard is awesome.

It’s not Italian, actually, it’s Nissart.

In Nice there’s a kind of swisschard gnocchi that’s called merda de can (dog’s shit) because of its appearance.

Judge by yourself (image taken from here).

The shape can be different depending on how you make them, but it always looks a bit suspicious.

It reminds me a bit of the “mud porridge” that we liked to make in a concave tree stump in the schoolyard when I was in preschool.

I’ve seen estadounidense in a Spanish newspaper before, and for some reason this word is very hard for me to spell.

In French too, there’s “états-unien” (also spelled “étatsunien”). It’s little known and rarely used (in France). I have no idea if it’s more often used by left-leaning speakers. (I do use it from time to time, and I think it can be useful to avoid ambiguity.) I can imagine its use being more common and more political in Québec, compared to France where I live?

While writing this comment, I stumbled on a letter from a very angry listener who wrote to the French public radio “arbitrator” (don’t know if it’s the right word) to complain about a guest using the word “étatZunien” (his spelling) several times (gasp) on the air. Apparently, the listener believed the word to be made up, and he wasn’t the only one who wrote to complain about it.

And the arbitrator’s like “um, dude, it’s a real word, it’s in the dictionary since 1961”.

There’s no point linking to that here, really — the letter’s all written in very incoherent French — but it made me laugh.

frequentative

Thanks to your comment, I’ve learned about the -le prefix and unlocked a new word. I’m going to bed satisfied. :)