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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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[unbearablynaive]

The languages came from entirely different regions, so that much is understandable. It would have made more sense if it had been a freshwater fish found in the river, but alas, it was entirely coincidental.

[ino]

... Wait, but aren't freshwater fish the only kind of fish in a river?

[unbearablynaive]

There are a few fish accustomed to brackish water that can be in either, but to clarify, I meant one found in the river at all. Tuna is, of course, a deep ocean fish.