We live in a culture that is very taxonomic, that sees significance in naming things as distinct things that have a distinct meaning that can be elaborated in an encyclopedia, but it need not always be so. Words are secondary to communication. They're lived in, sometimes messily or haphazardly.

#worldbuilding Language that isn't intentionally controlled by a centralized authority is rarely so uniform. On the other hand, there are also a plethora of examples of language being controlled in such a way on the level of the state (me looking directly at France).

My favorite example in my own work is a place that is just called "the high shore" in its own language, yet whether or not it gets translated or simply called the untranslated native word varies. I love just "the black country" in England and like the multitude of names for Germany as examples.

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