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Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months ago

English is a strange language.

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English is a strange language.

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Gartenschretel@sh.itjust.works to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months ago
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25626225

I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.

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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word

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      I guess these examples would be heterological.

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