Language topic

[Forostar]

Biscuits?

BAAAA HAHAHA

 

[Black Wizard]

Biscuits are cookies.

 

[Moon Child]

Not here apparently.

 

[bearfan]

Biscuits or Scones .. depending on where you are

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Biscuits are cookies.

Cookies are biscuits, yes; but not necessarily the other way round. I mean, a custard cream is a biscuit --& it ain't a cookie.

 

[Black Wizard]

Cookies are biscuits, yes; but not necessarily the other way round. I mean, a custard cream is a biscuit --& it ain't a cookie.

Yes, cookies are a type of biscuit but in America all biscuits are called cookies and scones are called biscuits.

 

[Moon Child]

There are variations in meaning depending on where you're at, it seems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

That's fucking dumb. If all biscuits are called cookies, and scones are called biscuits --WHAT ARE CALLED SCONES?!!

 

[Saapanael]

Now guess what Estonians call it.

 

[Forostar]

Today, according to the American English dictionary Merriam-Webster, a cookie is a "small flat or slightly raised cake".

 

[Black Wizard]

I wonder what the EU definition is.

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Why the fuck did you ask this?

 

[Forostar]

Now this one has kept its name in several other languages:

Yummy.

 

[Saapanael]

When I was 7 or 8 I could buy one of these for 3 kroons (0,2 euro). So delicious.

 

[Black Wizard]

They were in all the cafes at my last university.

 

[Ariana]

Now guess what Estonians call it.

What?

 

[Stardust]

Jag gillar ostbågar!

 

[Saapanael]

What?

Scone

 

[Stardust]

I love a Jag gillar ostbågar with clotted cream & jam...

Do you understand Swedish?

 

[CriedWhenBrucieLeft]

Yes, it's like a seventeenth language to me.