If English is this ambiguous, then imagine how hard it is to map it into a language spoken in hundreds of towns and cities spread across 11 timezones. Russians can often recognize which city another Russian grew up because of their choice of words when there is more than one way to express the same meaning.
As if this wasn't possible in the UK. Believe you me, there's far far more linguistic diversity between Norwich and Dudley than there is between Moscow and Vladivostock.