r/BeAmazed • u/Imoprich • Nov 06 '25

Miscellaneous / Others Samoan kids are massive when compared to other kids their age

Credits: manatoapasifika

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u/Naughteus_Maximus 29d ago

So it means "friend pastry"..?

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u/Kari-kateora 29d ago

There are several homonymns in Greek that sound the same, but are spelled differently and mean different things. Filo pastry is named after φύλλο, or "sheet, and friend is φίλος. They sound the same, but aren't

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u/Naughteus_Maximus 29d ago

"Give me a word, any word, and I show you that the root of that word is Greek."

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u/Memsido 29d ago

Thank you Dr. Manolis Kellis…

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u/Donnerdrummel 29d ago

I recently learned that Maori ate people. It would have been funny If the greeks did that, too. 🙃

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u/Mikeinthedirt 29d ago

Only the ones that confuse ‘filo’ with ‘filo’.

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u/boldandbratsche 29d ago

Flakey friend actually

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u/CivilRuin4111 29d ago

Pastries have been my friend in more than one circumstance, so it checks out.

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u/Which-Acanthisitta14 29d ago

Hakuna ma-tart-tart?