renzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldimagemessage-square109linkfedilinkarrow-up1427arrow-down145file-text
arrow-up1382arrow-down1imageEnglish has too many words for animalslemmy.worldrenzev@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square109linkfedilinkfile-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-up3·4 months 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.