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Language is hard (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 months ago

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

You were really set on correcting him

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Or at least something you could set.

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