renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldimagemessage-square111linkfedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1383arrow-down1imageEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square111linkfedilinkfile-text
Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”
minus-squaregnutrino@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days ago It means the opposite of itself. Fun fact: there’s a word for words like that, they’re called contronyms.
Fun fact: there’s a word for words like that, they’re called contronyms.