renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldimagemessage-square111linkfedilinkarrow-up1404arrow-down146file-text
arrow-up1358arrow-down1imageEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square111linkfedilinkfile-text
Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”
minus-squareblinfabian@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoidk what a box turtle even is 😭 but here in the netherlands we call all of them “schildpad” too. literally no normal human here will say “look a zeeschildpad” (except for biologists probably)
idk what a box turtle even is 😭 but here in the netherlands we call all of them “schildpad” too. literally no normal human here will say “look a zeeschildpad” (except for biologists probably)