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** Though, because Ork seems to rely heavily on compound words, something distinguishing the two could be used <ref>combining "grod" (best friend or favourite enemy) with either "skum" (the enemy) or "nar" (family, unit, command, crew) to give "skumgrod" or "nargrod" (though grodskum and grodnar would be equally valid)</ref>.
** They are also said to have no word for "equal". The only reason why the Orks haven't yet conquered the entire galaxy is that they determine social status by bashing in each others' heads (when no other heads are available). Or simply because it's fun.
* The Dwarfs of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' have no word for "forgiveness", but many for subtle variations of recompense, revenge, and retribution. This [[Revenge Before Reason|explains a lot]] about why they're going extinct.
** Almost every word in the [[Lizard Folk|Saurus]] language relates to battle. Since their purpose is to fight the enemies of the Lizardmen, they apparently never need any other words. (They're also not all that bright, and their language is very small.)
*** That's not fully true, Saurus are very smart and know most of the Lizardmen language (they can't take orders from the other Lizardmen races if they can't understand them) it's just that their intelligence is entirely focused on war and the tactics and strategies involved in waging it.
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