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Yes and crossing language families often results in words your native language thinks of as atomic being divided into multiple more specific concepts (or vice versa). For example Japanese has no word for foot- they just say leg and use context to infer what part is meant. On the other hand they have 3 words for specific parts of the back/hip area we would usually just call back or lower back in English. This kind of thing causes no end of confusion.


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