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Language is hard
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this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2024
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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.
According to QI, "set" has the most definitions
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.
*its
You were really set on correcting him
It's been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults "its" to "it's." Someone should change its programming.
Or at least something you could set.