Many languages make the distinction as part of their grammar, typically by using different affixes for alienable and inalienable possession. For example, in Mikasuki (a Muskogean language of Florida), "ac-akni" (inalienable) means 'my body', but "am-akni" (alienable) means 'my meat'. English does not have any way of making such distinctions (the example from Mikasuki is clear to English-speakers only because there happen to be two different words in English that translate "-akni" in the two senses: both Mikasuki words could be translated as 'my flesh', and the distinction would then disappear in English).