Comment on Why words like 'okay' and 'taxi' are universally understood across the world but survival related ones like 'help', 'water', 'food' remained nation specific?

Kissaki@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The survival related ones came to have names because they are integral to survival. People needed to address them, and so they did. With local isolation or dialects or divergence.

Okay, taxi, cola became popular and expanded their reach. They did not arise in individual and dispersed areas, they traveled.

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