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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.
English is a fine language
You say that, but I think it’s rather thick
Thick like sexual?
“Damn English you thicker than a bowl of oatmeal” thick?
I’m trying to be a comprehensible language but my definitions are dummy thicc and keep making things convoluted
That’s “thicc.”
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.
According to QI, “set” has the most definitions
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.
*its
You were really set on correcting him
It’s been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults “its” to “it’s.” Someone should change its programming.
Or at least something you could set.
You’ve seen nothing yet: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/set
"But your honor, I parked my car there because the sign said ‘fine for parking.’ "
That’s why the police complimented you with “parking fine”
English isn’t a language, it’s a mistake
It’s fine.
And you ask your girlfriend how she’s feeling and she says “fine”, buckle up.
“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
Counterpoint: fine dining is labeled as such, because you pay a fine (needlessly higher prices) for average food.
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.
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.
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.”
That motherfucker’s a motherfucker, motherfucker.
This is absolutely from a stand-up comedian. I’ve heard this before. Anyone remember who it was?
It reminds me a lot of this Finnish comedian talking about learning the different uses of the word “ass” in English.
Dang. Beat me to the link.
I’m glad others know about Ismo though. =)
I instantly thought of this bit!
I can’t claim it was him, but I read it in Carlin’s voice
Either him or Seinfeld? Feels like the stand-up bit at the beginning of one of the early episodes.
You can also describe how a woman looks without even changing the words.
How does she look?
“She’s fine”
SHE’S FINE!!!
She fine
Let’s eat grandpa
“Fine, I will pay that fine fine.”
This is fine 🔥
What a fine comment this is
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.
Was that fine hair? Or fine hair? Or fine hair? Or fine hair?
Fine arts
Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional.
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
What movie? I got it from Aerosmith…
The Italian Job. I was unaware of the Aerosmith connection!
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.
