• candyman337@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Well the Japanese need to be more specific because they’re very different.

    I can’t imaging how hard it is to Google specifically rat or specifically mice questions there lmao

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      14 hours ago

      I’m a native speaker of Mandarin (Chinese), where there’s no rat/mouse distinction either. I know that in English they’re different so I do say rat for big ones and mouse for small ones in English, but otherwise they’re basically the same to me.

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      The japanese simply don’t make that distinction and it’s not a problem for them

      Plenty of languages (including my Polish) don’t make a distinction between town and city, and they don’t have problems