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4 Post author: diegocaleiro 01 March 2013 02:51PM

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 02 March 2013 01:52:25AM 0 points [-]

Food example: I'll eat only plants, lean fish and chicken, nuts, fruits, whole pasta, beans and Chai Lattes.

My compressibility sense is tingling. Considering that this was the example of a short list...

Comment author: diegocaleiro 02 March 2013 03:27:32AM 0 points [-]

"Plants" was short for above-ground-vegetables there. Perhaps a Portuguese-Enghilsh false cognate if the metonymy is obviously unfeasible for a native English speaker.