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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by ludamad on Sunday July 03, 2016 @03:15PM (#12027238)
Re: "And what about the fact that some concepts and words are enunciated more succintly or clearly in different languages?" We just borrow the relevant words :)
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Re:Languages: Why we must save dying tongues (2014) by sbmassey on Sunday July 03, 2016 @05:38PM (#12027742)
Sometimes it is not just individual words, but grammatical structures which make things more succint. Latin has lots of such like your gerundives or your supines where you can express with a simple word ending what would take a bunch of words in English
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