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[ino]

Who: Ino and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide Video
Action: Three Twins
When: Now

[ Here's your friendly neighborhood blonde ninja with a BURNING question for you all. ]

All right, I have to know. Why is it that people say "tuna fish" and not just "tuna"? You don't say "cat mammal" or "eagle bird". You just say the name of it. Even with other fish you don't do that! Why do people say "tuna fish"? It doesn't make any sense.

Is this some kind of weird English thing?

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[summerschild]

What's tuna fish?

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[ino]

It's a type of fish that you can eat.

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[summerschild]

Are there fish that you can't eat?

[He's not very familiar with seafood in general.]

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[ishere]

I -

[ HE IS STUMPED and a little alarmed. ]

That's a really good question.

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[ino]

I need to know, Tadashi.

[ You would think she was trying to solve an actual mystery of life and existence, here. ]

There has to be some reason, right? Is it to make that stupid piano joke?

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[ishere]

[ he shakes his head as if that's going to somehow help him think, here. ]

Piano joke?

[ NO HE'S NOT MAKING THE CONNECTION YET he's still stumped by 'tuna fish.' ]

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[castrationfist]

Isn't English the language with "PIN number" and "ATM machine"? There's much bigger problems than that.

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[ino]

What are those?

[ This girl is not from Earth, oops. ]

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[castrationfist]

They're how you get money, or something...

[This one is! ... from the twelfth century.]

Personal identification number and automated teller machine, I think.

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[stefanged]

[...]

That's a really good point. The same reason we say "polar bear," I guess?

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[ino]

"Polar bear"? I haven't heard of that. ... A bear that likes poles?

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[save_the_souls]

I...

[.....]

[...]

[Stops working on the paperwork he was working on, sets down his pen. Stares off into space]

...I don't know.

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[ino]

[ Sorry she broke you, Allen. ]

Right? Isn't it just plain weird?

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[angelherding]

I always thought tuna fish is the cheap crap out of a can, and tuna is the fancy stuff you'd get at a restaurant.

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[ino]

[ Well, color her confused. ]

In a can? ... Why would you put tuna in a can?

[unbearablynaive]

[The Vision speaks with a British accent, so it actually sounds like tuner. Sorry about that.]

It's also the name of a river in Europe in one of the common languages, in fact. Sailors used the word "tunny" to refer to the fish and keep it distinct from the river, but as time went on the distinction became less and the designation was necessary.

[ino]

[ She looks a little amused. ]

Leave it to you to have the exact answer, huh, Vision? Well, I guess that makes sense. Kinda stupid to name the fish the same as the river, though.

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[onlyanapple]

Perhaps they say that in other places, but where I come from, we call it tuna.

Because that's what is.

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[ino]

Really? So it's not English after all ... that's what you speak normally, right?

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[reek]

Don't say it if it bothers you so much.

[ THEON HAS FIXED EVERY PROBLEM IN THE WORLD JUST NOW. ]

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[ino]

[ Ino looks very unimpressed, despite Theon's incredible problem solving skills. ]

Who said I was saying it in the first place? Other than to ask this question, anyway.

[robitussin]

a cat is obviously a mammal & an eagle is obviously a bird

whenever they're done with whatever they do to tuna and have it stuffed in little cans nobody would know what it was without specifying

[ino]

What is all this about canned tuna? I don't even like tuna that much, but that sounds disgusting.

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[paraclete]

What is your native language?

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[ino]

[ Huh? Oh, a text. All right, she guesses she'll switch over. ]

I've been told it's a lot like Japanese.