Comment on English has too many words for animals
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 3 days 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 2 days ago
Both are translated “tortue” in french However to be fair, it could be specified “Tortue marine” and “Tortue terrestre”
ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
But tortoise sounds like a French word
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Tor-twas.
ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
And its counterpart that stays only on land: Tor-twasn’t