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minus-squareImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up64arrow-down1·1 年前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.
minus-squareJuniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 年前You say that, but I think it’s rather thick
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 年前Thick like sexual? “Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” thick?
minus-squareedgemaster72@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前I’m trying to be a comprehensible language but my definitions are dummy thicc and keep making things convoluted
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-21 年前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.
minus-squareMr_Blott@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 年前According to QI, “set” has the most definitions
minus-squareMechanismatic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·edit-21 年前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.
minus-squareMechanismatic@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前It’s been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults “its” to “it’s.” Someone should change its programming.
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 年前Or at least something you could set.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 年前You’ve seen nothing yet: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set
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.
English is a fine language
You say that, but I think it’s rather thick
Thick like sexual?
“Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” thick?
I’m trying to be a comprehensible language but my definitions are dummy thicc and keep making things convoluted
That’s “thicc.”
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.
According to QI, “set” has the most definitions
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.
*its
You were really set on correcting him
It’s been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults “its” to “it’s.” Someone should change its programming.
Or at least something you could set.
You’ve seen nothing yet: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set