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		adrianN on March 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Do You Say “Life” in Physics? Wait, I'm German and I use bread whenever I mean Brot. What am I doing wrong?

eru on March 23, 2016 [–]

Compare Google image search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+brot vs https://duckduckgo.com/?q=!i+bread

Have you ever had English bread? See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process

Basically, the two words fray at the connotations. The denotation is the same.

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