Surely there is a name for this phenomena. Just like human languages have more than one word for the same thing (words for sex, genitals, alcohol, people you l

Surely there is a name for this phenomena. Just like human languages have more than one word for the same thing (words for sex, genitals, alcohol, people you like/love/hate). When something is popular (like the things I mentioned above) words to describe it flourish. Also, the url is a close to a universal thing as we have in programming. Almost every framework evolves to eventually deal with a URL (Greenspun's Tenth Rule). So maybe this is asking why the word for (sex|drugs|etc) are different in English than Russian. </wild speculation>