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CandyDumDub to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

That's unfortunate

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That's unfortunate

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CandyDumDub to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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    33•2 years ago

    You are

    Your

    🤣

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      2 years ago

      You mean y’all. Don’t embarrass us.

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        8•2 years ago

        y’all’d’nt’ve’d’d’i’d’nt’ve’d’y’all’t’ve’d

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      19•2 years ago

      There, their, they’re.

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        5•2 years ago

        https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/morning-start-the-english-word-with-the-most-definitions-is-set/

        430 diffrent meanings

        264 as a verb https://www.oed.com/dictionary/set_v1?tab=factsheet#23402997

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          American here, I’m going to challenge myself to remember as many as I can.

          Set: A group of things that go together.

          Set: Letting a dessert cool in the fridge

          Set: A stage for a play or film

          Set: A command to put something somewhere

          Set: A part of Tennis

          …

          5/704 isn’t so bad, right?

          Edit: looking up the definitions shows a lot of sub-definitions that essentially have the same meaning. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say that the word has 435 meanings when “set a course” and “set a fire” are basically “start a thing,” yet they’re listed as different definitions. The are many many of these cases even just on Google’s definition blurb.

          But I’m no dictionary expert so…

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            3•2 years ago

            Yeah some do seem the same, but thats possilbe also a bias from knowning the language.

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        5•2 years ago

        Though through thought

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          have/of
          of/off
          to/too
          ad/add
          I today saw someone use “theirs” in place of “there is”, and I hope that they are a non-native speaker.

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      1•2 years ago

      Here’s one: it’s/its

      Now tell me which is possessive.

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