How did people who speak different languages ​​communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?

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How did people who speak different languages ​​communicate in the past if language barrier is a thing even now?

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You know why that spiky trees are called “spruce”? Because English people were buying them from Poles, and Poles were saying “z Prus” which sounds exactly like English “spruce” but actually has a meaning, “from Prussia”. In other words, they sometimes just didn’t.

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