renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agoEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldimagemessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up1275arrow-down132file-text
arrow-up1243arrow-down1imageEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square63fedilinkfile-text
Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”
minus-squareBananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down1·8 hours agoTortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises. This isn’t an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
minus-squaremenas@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoBoth are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.
This isn’t an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
Both are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
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