&gt; That depends on which pairs<p>Portuguese and Spanish have more in common than many other latin-derived languages. Again, two similar languages, slightly different words for the same things... Most languages will have a basic set of concepts in common, and will have different words for each.<p>&gt; (1) It gives a window into how each culture understands a given field and Universe overall<p>And be more interested in examples of this than analogies. If one culture say &quot;get in the bath&#x2F;shower&quot; and another &quot;get on the bath&#x2F;shower&quot; (ala. &quot;get on a train&quot;) what understanding does it give us? Could we not get the same understanding by reading linguistics books instead?..<p>&gt; Perhaps it would make sense to prune our English vocabulary. After all, less is more, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts<p>less is more is an fashionable ideology in certain design circles, not a universal law. English is pretty idiomatic - that&#x27;s where the missing words go. I don&#x27;t think software analogies are useful here, natural languages are very less explicit than software tooling.<p>&gt; Luckily we have two hands<p>o-k. Care to unpack that? this is an outright substitution of a sensible argument for a vague anology... How is confusion between incompatible grammer likely to make you fat and happy?