I've seen tons of people over the years say japanese has dozens, perhaps hundreds, of counting systems, with the strong implication that it's this super exotic trait. Don't get me wrong that japanese doesn't have some super interesting features as a language, but english has literally the same system:

• one, two, three, ...
• twins, triplets, quadruplets, ...
• bicycle, tricycle, quadrocycle, ...
• first, second, third, ...
• single, double, triple, ...
• nullary, unary, binary, ternary, ...
• primary, secondary, tertiary, ...
• etc.

It blew my mind when I learned that "venidos" meant "come"... And bienvenidos literally meant "well come", like it is good that you have came here.

And then I finally realized what welcome meant. 🤯

The French don't have a word for entrepreneur

English doesn't have a single word for "government official who has been giving kickbacks to a company and therefore upon retirement gets a sinecure position in that company" but Japanese does.

https://jisho.org/search/amakudari

The Swedish word for vegetable is "Green thing"

Goodbye was derived from "God be with ye"

In German the word for alone is Allein as in "all one". It blew my mind that it's the same in English.

In Ukrainian the word for Trident is Trizub, literally "three tooth". Again, it blew me away that it's the same in English.

English doesn't have a word for people with orange hair.

“Everybody” is a weird way of saying all the people. The French say “all the world”, which is also weird.

This came up in the latest episode of Tom Scott's Reverse Trivia: they got onto the topic of princes, and Tom had the sudden realisation of where "principality" comes from.

And Gary then dropped "duchy": region granted to a duke.

Words have histories, we often forget it.

How do you explain skibidi?

My favorite is that in French, you don't ask "How old are you?" "I'm 50 years old," you ask "What age do you have?" "I have 50 years."

It's like you've aged like a fine wine, versus being old and past your prime.

English doesn't have a word for soutan/sautan (fellow wife).

In Irish, there is no word for yes.