English also has pork and pig, cattle and beef, poultry and chicken. Because of the Norman invasion. https://twitter.com/yourevoltingwen/status/921301670654611456 …
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Russians make distinction between "na svobode" (free in a generic sense) and "na vole" (free to do as you will).
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The corresponding nouns are "freedom"/"will", which are not same as "freedom"/"liberty" but the distinction is there in the above phrases
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IDK maybe Germanic + Latinate vocab makes it a bit cheaper for English to make distinctions but I doubt it's a huge effect
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I honestly can't think of a situation where freedom/liberty affords a clear and useful distinction.
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I agree, not without setting up the distinction beforehand
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Someone noted "...and you still have to distinguish free-as-in-beer from free-as-in-speech"
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I guess it's true there's no free lunch even linguistically
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