Re: Different words for one thing
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 18, 1999, 2:16 |
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FFlores wrote:
> > Ice: "solid H2O"
> > Water: "liquid H2O"
> > Steam: "gaseous H2O"
> > Rain: liquid H2O which condensed in the sky and fell to the ground
> > Snow, hail, sleet, are other examples.
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> Well, these are clearly distinct...
To you they are. But you speak an Indo-European language. But, they
are the same substance, merely different forms of the same. For
instance, the language Malay uses the same word for "water" and "ice".
They would see "water" and "ice" as an unnecessary distinction.
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