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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In French they are all butterflies (papillons). There once was a distinction between butterflies and night butterflies (moths) but apparently it's now obsolete and they are just all lepidoptera.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That seems crazy. All butterflies come from moths, so it'd make more sense for Papillon to mean moth. It's like calling everything from the order Rodentia a Capybara, or everything in Eulipotyphla a hedgehog, both things within those orders in smaller numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Weirdly enough, language largelt evolves independently from other species.