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

@stound 😔 omg I never thought about that! I only thought about crows and wolves.

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether crows and ravens are quite different in biological terms. even in their sizing if you look at one next to the other. same with wolves, coyotes, and coy-dogs (they've made a distinction, but it's less clear than between wolves and coyotes)

@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.