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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

English has too many words for animals

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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”

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Both are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
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  But tortoise sounds like a French word
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    Tor-twas.
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      And its counterpart that stays only on land: Tor-twasn’t

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