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by TylerE 1047 days ago
There are well over a hundred species of maple. It’s an entire genus.
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Relevantly, many of them have no single word name in English, or even any specific name in English at all.
Pragmatically, in English we deal with this by briefly dropping into Latin to talk about acer caesium, for example, and this is fine because we’re generally not aiming for any kind of linguistic purity - it’s not so easy if we try to use Toki Pona as a highly puristic, controlled vocabulary language.