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)
People aren’t downvoting because it’s about English. It’s because this is memes and where meme?
Is this meme though? This is a genuine thought I had.
[email protected] is a better place for genuine thoughts.
This is for memes, which is usually jokes in image form.
Damn I can’t even have thoughts
You can, but don’t get bothered when you share them in the wrong place and people don’t respond well. If you’re not sure where to share there’s [email protected]
Yeah, that’s not how “meme” is commonly used in today’s usage.