Languages and Words

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Words and languages are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Words" instead a noun "Languages".

Words noun - Language that is spoken or written.

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Languages and words are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Languages" instead a noun "Words".

Portmanteau: Just as an example, the word listed below under Written Sound Effect is made up from the words for "thunder" in ten different languages.

Source: Literature / Finnegans Wake
Partly, this comes from the definition of what a word is - the languages in question can form long compound words which are the equivalent of whole phrases in other languages.

Source: Useful Notes / Linguistics
Alternately, the alien swear words might not translate cleanly into the audience's language, much the same as with actual swear words and insults in many languages in Real Life.

Source: Pardon My Klingon

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Words and Languages. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/languages/words

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