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Language is hard (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] expatriado 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

English is a fine language

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thick like sexual?

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

[–] edgemaster72 3 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 2 weeks ago

That's "thicc."

[–] teft 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (2 children)

*its

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

You were really set on correcting him

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Or at least something you could set.