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Language is hard (lemmy.world)
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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

English is a fine language

[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ByteOnBikes 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thick like sexual?

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's "thicc."

[–] teft@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[–] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

*its

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

You were really set on correcting him

[–] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Or at least something you could set.