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[-] teft@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago

According to QI, "set" has the most definitions

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

You were really set on correcting him

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults "its" to "it's." Someone should change its programming.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Or at least something you could set.

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