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 #2 (permalink) Tue May 05, 2009 8:09 am what is the difference? |
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Good morning Kiki.
Your leg is the limb immediately above your ankle.
You foot is below your ankle.
Your ankle is what joins the two parts.
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| #3 (permalink) Wed May 06, 2009 14:21 pm What is the difference between leg and foot? |
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| Kiki, do you speak one of those languages in which just one word refers to the leg and foot together? Does your language perhaps use the word "noha" or "noga"? |
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| #4 (permalink) Wed May 06, 2009 15:56 pm What is the difference between leg and foot? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| or "noga"? |
"Noga" is in Polish and though it is commonly do used to describe this part of the human body below hips (of course people usually have 2 legs and "noga" means just one), it's not exactly, not technically the same thing as "leg" and "foot" put together:)
Beacause "a foot" has it's own translation which is "stopa". |
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| #5 (permalink) Wed May 06, 2009 16:02 pm What is the difference between leg and foot? |
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| Sure, but when I'll bet people generally use the word "stopa" only when being very, very specific. If Polish is like Czech, a Polish person who has cut his thigh or calf will say he has a cut on his "noga". And when a drunk man is slow dancing at a discotheque, the woman he's dancing with will tell him he's stepping on her "nogi", not her "stopy". Am I right? |
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| #6 (permalink) Wed May 06, 2009 16:32 pm What is the difference between leg and foot? |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: |
| Sure, but when I'll bet people generally use the word "stopa" only when being very, very specific. If Polish is like Czech, a Polish person who has cut his thigh or calf will say he has a cut on his "noga". And when a drunk man is slow dancing at a discotheque, the woman he's dancing with will tell him he's stepping on her "nogi", not her "stopy". Am I right? |
Yes, Jamie, you are perfectly right  Maybe exept this example with discotheque, I'd use "stopy" after all, but when I think about it, we indeed use "foot" just to specify. Commonly it is just "noga". |
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