• Pyr@lemmy.ca
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    15 hours ago

    English is fucked as a language. Honestly there’s no reason we need two different words for that with such similar meanings and pronunciation.

    • jaselle@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      Basically every language has situations like this. "plus” in French comes to mind. I think the worst one in English is particularly bad though – “can” and “can’t” pronounced nearly identically in my dialect.