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Language is hard (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Merriam-Webster lists 7 adjective forms, 2 adverb forms, 3 noun forms, and 3 verb forms. That's definitely a lot of definitions for a word.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

English is a fine language

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You say that, but I think it's rather thick

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thick like sexual?

"Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal" thick?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I'm trying to be a comprehensible language but my definitions are dummy thicc and keep making things convoluted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's "thicc."

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Try get, put, run, or go. Those in my second language I'm constantly translating wrong because of how many different definition for those words there are. 'Put' has to be over 100 different definitions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Once you set up this set of objects on the set, we'll be all set for the Set festival and the band can play its set.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

*its

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

You were really set on correcting him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults "its" to "it's." Someone should change its programming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Or at least something you could set.