How come the msq keeps using big words?

[Mahrze]

Japanese doesn't typically have "big words". English might have 40 different words to say "strong" because English is a composite of Old French, Germanic, Latin, and Greek. Japanese has some Chinese roots in it. Typically most languages have a few words for the same thing, but English is different. For example, going with puissant (which means strong), we have...

As a romance language speaker, I dare say English is not exclusive in 40 different words for the same "meaning". But this comes mostly to languages which have been adapted by various cultures. The major difference is how the culture of the time adapts words and their meaning.


Words lose relevance with time and some of them are perceived as outdated or strange.