(non-native speaker)

Is there a reason why the English language has “special” words for a specific topic, like related to court (plaintiff, defendant, warrant, litigation), elections/voting (snap election, casting a ballot)?

And in other cases seems lazy, like firefighter, firetruck, homelessness (my favorite), mother-in-law, newspaper.

  • OhmsLawn@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    A lot of the law related words are from French derivations AFAIK?

    Yeah, those legal terms have been more-or-less common to any romance language I’ve used.