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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 63 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago
[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

You were really set on correcting him

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

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 months ago

Or at least something you could set.

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