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• candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well the Japanese need to be more specific because they’re very different.

  I can’t imaging how hard it is to Google specifically rat or specifically mice questions there lmao

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have you heard of grue?

    In any case, the same applies to animals. They may not be linguistucally differentiated in the same way across language boundaries.

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  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a native speaker of Mandarin (Chinese), where there’s no rat/mouse distinction either. I know that in English they’re different so I do say rat for big ones and mouse for small ones in English, but otherwise they’re basically the same to me.

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  • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The japanese simply don’t make that distinction and it’s not a problem for them

    Plenty of languages (including my Polish) don’t make a distinction between town and city, and they don’t have problems

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    • candyman337@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel like town and city is a little less consequential than to separate species

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      • KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Mice and rats are both generic names for multiple species

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    • fading_person@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, aren’t town and city the same thing?

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      • SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think cities are bigger. Hamlet -> Village -> Town -> City -> Metropolis, or something along those lines.

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      • smh@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Can also denote a difference in government styles: towns have a town council, cities have a mayor. Cities can be smaller than towns.

        This depends on your region, naturally.

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