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?

• zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  𝕱𝖑𝖚𝖌𝖟𝖊𝖚𝖌 would like a word

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  • TanakaAsuka@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly I can’t think of a single European language where it is the case. German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Basque… none of them sound like aeroplane.

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    • zakobjoa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, Spanish uses el avión and el aeroplane and Italian is l’ aero which is just short for l’ aeroplano. Gotta give him that.

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      • WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well because the words for air are aire and aria in Spanish and Italian respectively, and you know, aircraft fly through the air.

        Other languages base the word on the word fly. It would be weird naming the concept without using the words air of fly.

        Helicopter is a better example, while we’re on the topic of flying machines.

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    • DrQuint@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m wondering why they didn’t choose a word like Television for this.

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      • spizzat2@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Have Germans given up “Fernseher” in favor of “Television”?

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  • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Germany is the red headed step child lol

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    • JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Deutsch and their « zeugs  and Dings »

      I love that a culture so associated with attention to detail and precision engineering is just like « flugzeug, fuerzeug, schlagzeug, schreibzeug… »

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• Magister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Clément Ader did it in 1890

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• Number358@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Russian doesn’t, we call it self flyer (самолёт)

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