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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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[paraclete]

It is very different from English in many ways, although there's a notable amount of English loanwords that I've noticed. But maybe if your language is "a lot" like Japanese, there is merely a different language that is "a lot" like English? I admit I am still not accustomed to how all this works...

Anyway, a way to call "tuna" in the language I grew up speaking does also title it a fish.