>>When someone says "let's organize a doček", everyone knows what it means, without any extra words. Even if it's an ambush, which is also a way to do that :).
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>EXACTLY! They're using CONTEXT. If they're guerillas they know they mean an ambush; if they're at the airport they know they mean an ambush; If it's New Years Eve, they know they mean welcome in the guerillas. :-)

I didn't say Serbian is context-free. It's just that the words have much more definition and orders of magnitude less ambiguity. The word has an exact meaning, "what is done when a-waiting (for)", it's the "how" that's contextual.

>>"I'm selling quite well, the slave said". Transitive or not, that is the question :).
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>If the person he's talking to can see he's carrying a tray of confectionaries, he know (vt); if he's in IRONS, and the bidding's gone up to 20,000,000 kopeks, then he knows it's (vi)

Doesn't see anything, it's a message on a cell phone. Ha!

>>>(lol) Ah! - "lioness"! - 3 cubs - herd of monkeys
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>>How about "lioness with three lionlings, ...
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>no, three cubs

That's "mladunče"

>>...I've never heard any words for a male zebra,
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>STALLION of course, and the female's a mare

That's the same word that's used for horses. BTW, the Belgrade football (soccer, that is) fans' definition of a zebra: "A donkey who roots for Partizan" (the black & white stripes club).

>>...or female rhinoceros in my language :).
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>COW (Bull and cow are used for m/f of many species, including whales)

And what's the word for the regular cow? Cow again. And when there's a cow and a zebra cow grazing alongside each other...

>>But then one could just append an appropriate suffix and anyone would understand what he meant.
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>The suffix "ess" or "ix" ("!or" words - dominator/dominatrix - directrix- from the Latin) are used to feminise many male-orientated words.

I.e. the -ling is the only suffix available for the cub?

>What a word-poor language you have! How about gaggle of geese, mob/crowd/audience of people, school of whales (I think there's another one for dolphins)? There's also mob (of kangaroos/monkeys?), mockery (crows/ravens/magpies?)

Thin in some areas, I confess. But then, you have only one word for a number of people - when I say "petorica" - it's five male humans, "pet" it's five female humans, "petoro" - it's a mix of five humans of different genders. And that goes for any number between 2 and infinity (except for hundred, thousand, ten thousand etc).

>No, that's from the chest and suggests difficulty in breathing - not just an annoying noise.

We don't have such a word either; there's abundance of words for various speech impediments, though. "Vrstecati" - to pronounce your s's, sh's, ch's, soft-ch's and zh's too similarly; "frfljati" - mispronounce a lot, but fast; "mumlati" - to mumble (similar, isn't it?), "mrmljati" - to murmur (again).