How do languages end up with so many words for the same thing? 278 viewsJanuary 1, 2024 Question98.74K June 2, 2023 0 Comments Why did we not stop at “big” and instead we now have “huge”, “massive”, “giagantic”, “large”, “enormous” etc? In: 0 9 Answers ActiveNewestOldest Anonymous Posted June 2, 2023 0 Comments They are not the same. New words may come when the old words are not enough. For example Eskimos had many words for “snow”. Because they see so much snow that they have a need to identify it further based on what kind of snow it is. You are viewing 1 out of 9 answers, click here to view all answers. Register or Login
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