272
Victorian Salad
(lemmy.nz)
Context: Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Ponte y Palacios Blanco also known as Simón Bolívar was a revolutionary figure and namesake for the country of Bolivia.
The Victorian Era is named after Queen Victoria and her depressing clothing choices.
Caesar Salad is named after a Mexican Italian chef, Caesar Cardini. Who is well known for overseeing the Roman Republics collapse into an empire.
Fun fact: ceasar was pronounced more like Keasar which makes the Kaiser appear more sensible. I wondered for years how that happened and then learned the original pronunciation
Weni widi wiki.
To be fair, I don't know the difference between a V and a W. I hear vent and went the same way
Ueni uidi uiki..?
We also use the original sound in Japanese for the historical figures and title i.e. カエサル (kaesaru), but the English pronunciation for Caesar salad i.e. シーザーサラダ (shīzā sarada).
I know English does this a decent bit but it always makes me smile when I hear a Japanese person speaking Japanese and then just randomly hitting you with a borrowed English word but with a Japanese accent
It's cute until you're speaking Japanese in Japan and have to remember how to say a particular mangled English word in order to be understood. You have to learn to pronounce so many things ostensibly like a character doing a racist Japanese accent.
I wore my bureza (blazer) and wai shatsu (white dress shirt) and rode my baiku (bike) to sutaba (starbucks) and bought a koppu (cup) of ko-hi (coffee).
As a language learner it gets old.
I've tried learning a few languages and one of the things I learned is that the accent is part of the language. So yeah it might feel a little racist like you're doing a caricature but it does actually help native speakers understand you better.
Ave, true to Caesar!