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by c2xlZXB5Cg
2055 days ago
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The way you say "coffee" while understood by all sides, embeds enough information to determine your ethnicity/religion/nationality/place of birth and is weaponized for political use. The truth is, people understand each other just fine. Pushing for giving a name to "the common language" or enumerating how many "different languages" exist has little to do with linguistics. |
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This is also true, to an extent, for words meaning "tea".
https://qz.com/1176962/map-how-the-word-tea-spread-over-land...