Comment on English has too many words for animals
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
Tortoises are Turtles, but not all Turtles are Tortoises.
This isn’t an English thing, this is a taxonomy thing. It should be the same in any language, just with different words used.
menas@lemmy.wtf 4 weeks ago
Both are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
ptu@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
But tortoise sounds like a French word
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tor-twas.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
And its counterpart that stays only on land: Tor-twasn’t