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[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Context always helps, I'd say.

In English, you can say "dirty person" and "dirty child", but then "dirty boy" and "dirty girl" have sexual connotation behind them. No change in any word function, just how it's paired.

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