Here are 3 examples:
Fried egg, fried rice, fried chicken

All these “fry” are different. If you were to use the “fry” in fried rice to fry an egg, you’d get scrambled egg. Fried chicken is done by submerging it in oil, which you won’t do with fried egg or fried rice.

This post is made from the perspective of a Cantonese/Chinese speaker. We have different words for these different types of “fry” (煎, 炒, 炸 respectively)

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    People here really don’t like it when a post talks about the English language

    Haha, I love projection like this, you assumed and people are downvoting, and you’re wrong: hubris.

    People are downvoting for multiple reasons, right up front is this is a community for memes - I don’t see a meme here.

    Second reason: you’re patently wrong about the word fry. Frying food has one meaning (as clarified by others), with different techniques for each food.

    Also, your post comes across as criticising, which isn’t interesting.