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minus-square@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish45•9 months agoMerriam-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) 🫐linkfedilinkEnglish10•9 months agoYou say that, but I think it’s rather thick
minus-square@ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish6•9 months agoThick like sexual? “Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” thick?
minus-square@edgemaster72@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoI’m trying to be a comprehensible language but my definitions are dummy thicc and keep making things convoluted
minus-squareteftlinkfedilinkEnglish17•edit-29 months agoTry 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.
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.