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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 weeks 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 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] june@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thick like sexual?

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

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks 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 weeks ago

That's "thicc."

[–] teft@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[–] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

You were really set on correcting him

[–] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

Or at least something you could set.