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Indeed, I looked at some highly scored words for Polish in google translate and they are words where the foreign word, transliterations into Polish, and Polish word are used. And when you pare it down to say five real distinctive meanings, you often find similar less commonly used synonyms in English. Also as I was looking through it seemed that possibly it was not taking into consideration verb vs. noun in English cause the counts seemed oddly way off for some where it could have happened. If you are familiar with English and another language, I would like to know what you see.


Yeah, lots of fun data issues can be found in their exploration tool https://charleskemp.com/code/lexicalelaboration.html

Icelandic has a bunch of dictionary abbrevations: medic(al), temp(us), germ(anic), veg(etation). Tarifit is dominated by linguistic terminology. German has a few German words that look like English words meaning something completely different (mantel, tier, boot, stall), one loanword (angst) and what might be dictionary abbrevations again: humor(ous), miner(alogy), spa(nish)...




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