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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Language is hard

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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  • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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    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
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      English is a fine language

      • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        You say that, but I think it’s rather thick

        • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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          Thick like sexual?

          “Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” thick?

          • edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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            I’m trying to be a comprehensible language but my definitions are dummy thicc and keep making things convoluted

          • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            That’s “thicc.”

    • teft@lemmy.world
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      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.

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        According to QI, “set” has the most definitions

        • Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml
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          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
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            9 months ago

            *its

            • Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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              You were really set on correcting him

            • Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml
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              It’s been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults “its” to “it’s.” Someone should change its programming.

              • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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                Or at least something you could set.

    • Bob@feddit.nl
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      9 months ago

      You’ve seen nothing yet: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set

  • DMBFFF@lemmy.world
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    "But your honor, I parked my car there because the sign said ‘fine for parking.’ "

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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      That’s why the police complimented you with “parking fine”

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    English isn’t a language, it’s a mistake

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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      It’s fine.

  • Zozano@lemy.lol
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    And you ask your girlfriend how she’s feeling and she says “fine”, buckle up.

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  • Mwalimu@baraza.africa
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    “The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

    James D. Nicoll

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    Counterpoint: fine dining is labeled as such, because you pay a fine (needlessly higher prices) for average food.

  • EnderWiggin@lemmy.world
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    English is fucking weird. Take for example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

    This is a perfectly fine sentence,. I am not sure I am fine with it.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      A much quoted comment and yet I don’t get it the only meaning for the word Buffalo that I know is of an animal.

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        Buffalo = The city

        buffalo = the animal, or the verb meaning “to bully”

        The sentence is therefore roughly equivalent to “Buffalo animals that Buffalo animals bully, bully Buffalo animals.”

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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

    • bamfic@lemmy.world
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      That motherfucker’s a motherfucker, motherfucker.

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    You can also describe how a woman looks without even changing the words.

    How does she look?

    “She’s fine”

    SHE’S FINE!!!

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      She fine

      • Gingernate@programming.dev
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        Let’s eat grandpa

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    This is absolutely from a stand-up comedian. I’ve heard this before. Anyone remember who it was?

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      It reminds me a lot of this Finnish comedian talking about learning the different uses of the word “ass” in English.

      Ass Is the Most Complicated Word in the English Language

      • TehBamski@lemmy.world
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        Dang. Beat me to the link.

        I’m glad others know about Ismo though. =)

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        I instantly thought of this bit!

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      I can’t claim it was him, but I read it in Carlin’s voice

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        Either him or Seinfeld? Feels like the stand-up bit at the beginning of one of the early episodes.

  • stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.world
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    “Fine, I will pay that fine fine.”

  • Twinkletoes@lemm.ee
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    This is fine 🔥

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    Look at that fine woman with her fine hair. I wonder if she’s feeling fine today. Maybe I should take her out for fine dining.

    • el_abuelo@programming.dev
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      Was that fine hair? Or fine hair? Or fine hair? Or fine hair?

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional.

    • Telcontar@lemmy.today
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      I used this for years without telling my wife it was from a movie. She was not happy with me when she eventually saw it for the first time

      • draneceusrex@lemmy.world
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        What movie? I got it from Aerosmith…

        • Telcontar@lemmy.today
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          The Italian Job. I was unaware of the Aerosmith connection!

          • draneceusrex@lemmy.world
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            https://youtu.be/5F_UFS6ym2k?si=AcYj6r4WlVQ8aGf2 looks like Aerosmith beat it by 14 years, though I wouldn’t doubt it was around before then.

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    What a fine comment this is

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    Fine arts

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