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?

Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

From learning a new language, one thing I noticed is that the more modern the word, the more likely it will be the same or similar in your own language. Thus computer is very close across many languages where as help can be quite different. I think taxi would be a very new concept. Ok. That might just be due to the word being so simple thus it was adopted fast. Much like we nod for yes.

Not an expert but just an observation I had found interesting.

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