Turtle or Tortoise? Fridge or Refrigerator? Crocodile or Alligator?

@pagandad Again you go with your assumptions and judgements. Also again all you mention applies to all the languages on the globe including Arabic 🤦‍♂ you obviously don't know anything about it. You are just too judgy to notice that. Don't talk about what you know nothing about, now that's stupid. Educate yourself please.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether Well, for starters, you don't need to talk about alligators much because you don't have alligators. Only crocodiles. Same with coyotes.

In the US we have mostly alligators with only a few crocodiles. So if you wanted to tell the doctor which reptile ate your foot, the different names come in handy.

A fridge and a refrigerator both keep food cold. so it doesn't matter which you use.

@Mamapolo2016 Haha yup 😃

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@Jackaloftheazuresand Are you kidding me? 🤦‍♂I never heard those two words before. Still there's just one word for Crocodiles on general in the Arabic dictionary.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether How about dinosaurs?

@Jackaloftheazuresand Same word :) ديناصور

@stound In my language they are all the same lol I myself wonder why that's how it is, the only thing I think I heard is there's a word for Coyoties actually but nobody in my country uses it.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether I think that might be a function of need vs. english's proclivity to steal words from other langauges and roll them in as economics and society changes (like how a farmer raises cows and pigs, but the butcher sells beef and pork). there are more than a few languages that went for a long time with no notion of numbers beyond 3, 5, 10 or something like that. counting numbers up to there, then just 'all of them' after.

@stound That's very true! Languages on general have been evolving since the beginning of time and they still are.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether so what do you call the dog and cat?

@Virgo79 Ketta and Kalb. Well they're obviously not the same thing.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether ok🤦‍♂️

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@BalmyNites

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether Oh that’s just exquisite 😍

@BluntSm0ker That's something I learned right now 🤦‍♂ here we have a Turtle and a water Turtle. Problem solved.

@Azlotto Yes 🙂