[notdang]

From wikipedia: In the Soviet Union, Belarusians were sometimes called bulbashi, a pejorative conjugation of the Belarusian word for potato.

[tetromino_]

That's because Belarusians eat a lot of potatoes. The per capita potato consumption there is probably the highest in the world: http://www.fao.org/potato-2008/en/world/

[tomjakubowski]

Funny, I was just reading about how non-German residents of Germany use "Kartoffel" (potato) as a perjorative for Germans in Germany. I didn't realize "potato" was such an effective insult it would exist in another country too!

[smcl]

Not to mention that there's a lot of (IMO semi-bad taste, but mostly just unfunny) potato pejoratives + punchlines directed @ the irish.

[IsmaOlvey]

In the game Dota 2, the bracket with players that play so badly it becomes humorous, is often called the "potato bracket".

Ostensibly the term is meant to imply that the players there have about as much capability of thought as a potato.

[lucb1e]

In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people, not Germans in particular as far as I knew. It might originate from that, I don't know.

Wat een aardappel! "What a dummy!"

[pif]

> In Dutch we say aardappel (earth apple; means potato) to stupid people

Same in France with "patate". Funny to notice that the more common French expression for "potato" is "pomme de terre" ("apple of earth"), just like in Dutch!

[lucb1e]

Patat in Dutch are french fries :D

Though in the south (both south NL and Flemish Belgium) they're called "friet", as in "gefrituurd" ("fries" as in "they're fried"). Still, patat is officially Dutch and according to some website 95% of the Flemish people and 100% of the Dutch people know the word.

[breakingcups]

I've never said that.

[cgvgffyv]

You're 20, he's 45. Or he's even more of a nerd than you.

[lucb1e]

Nah, that saying isn't nerdy, just wait for the UDP jokes...

(... which nobody gets.)

[lucb1e]

May be regional, I'm not sure. Might have picked it from in either Limburg, Noord-Brabant or Gelderland. Pretty sure though that it's fairly universal, even if it's not something lots of people say every day.

[jdavis703]

Interesting, TIL that conjugation is not just for verbs, but that there is a separate and distinct use of this word for combining two ideas (which I guess in a sense is what verb conjugation is).

[lotyrin]

Generally, it is just verbs. The broader category (modification of any part of speech) is called inflection.