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Our acorn tree dropped all of its blossom-thingies within a few hours (infosec.pub)

submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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Edit:
Just realized the correct name for the tree is actually maple.

False friend caused mistake because its name is "Ahorn" in German.
Keeping the heading as it is, because it is funny, although it might trigger the Canadians (sorry, dudes!).

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"Blossom" essentially means "flower". It's just not used as often. At least not in American English.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I knew it from things like "cherry blossom", meaning "Kirschblüte", so have always assumed "blossom" to be used in completely the same way as "Blüte".
Same for "Blume"/"flower".
Turns out, both assumptions have been wrong.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

Well since it's english and we borrow and mash everything around and together: we say that flowers and trees 'bloom' when they produce blossoms.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 minutes ago

And as "Blume" is pronounced almost identical to "bloom" (only a tiny addon sound at the ending), we have yet another promising false-friend-candidate! :-)