We all know that the west uses two different words for the same thing depending on where it is happening.

e.g. Secret Police vs Plainclothes Officer
Regime vs Government

Can we have a compilation thread of these words? I am probably using many of them unconsciously without critical examination.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    There's a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.

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    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.

      very-smart Actually, Excalibur is double-sided, so it is a 剣/tsurugi.