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Antonija Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

perspire/sweat

Help me, please, to choose a better word:

A term oil originates/is derived from/stems from/has its origins in Ancient Persian word nafata, which means perspire/sweat.
  

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It's a little joke amongst people who want to show how silly English can be if used too politely at times, thus: Ladies perspire; men sweat. Only well-dressed, superior class of people perspire; the rest of us sweat. Perspire and sweat mean exactly the same thing.

— Alan.es

  • It's a little joke amongst people who want to show how silly English can be if used too politely at times, thus: Ladies perspire; men sweat.
  • Only well-dressed, superior class of people perspire; the rest of us sweat.
  • Perspire and sweat mean exactly the same thing.
  • However you are using it I think to describe a natural process so sweat is more natural.
  • I think this is what you are trying to say in the sentence; The term oil originates/is derived from/stems from/has its origins in an Ancient Persian word nafata, which means perspire/sweat.
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It's a little joke amongst people who want to show how silly English can be if used too politely at times, thus:

Ladies perspire; men sweat.

Only well-dressed, superior class of people perspire; the rest of us sweat.

Perspire and sweat mean exactly the same thing. However you are using it I think to describe a natural process so sweat is more natural.

I think t
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It appears to be highly unlikely that a word like "oil" is deived from "nafata". Maybe in your native language "oil" is more similar? Surely, terms like naphta, naphtalene originate from nafata.

Kajjo
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Hello everybody.

Yes, Croatian term 'nafta' is related with 'nafata'.

Thank you for your comments.
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