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[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 month ago

why is english like this... we just call it "shortening".

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Why does a language have different words for different concepts?

[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 month ago

in my language we tend to use base words to broadly describe concepts, and combinations of words for more accuracy.

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