it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing
what the hell
This makes me really chuffed
This post is quite egregious
Well I’m nonplussed by this whole post.
goddamnit.
all of you go to hell
And you wonder why i am boggled at times
These are called contronyms! A word that is its own opposite.
Why the fuck do these exist
They exist because they start out meaning one thing, people confuse them with another similar word or get confused about non-literal uses or uses in certain ambiguous contexts and start thinking they mean the opposite, then if enough people use and understand it in the new way the word really has that meaning, because use is the only authority on language. But if people are also still using and understanding the word in the original way, it still has that meaning, too.
bc “human” comes from a latin root (homo > humanus > humaine > human) and “man” (and thus “men”) comes from a germanic root (mann > man)Â
so you get humans, not humen, since “humans” doesn’t play by germanic rules
look at that i asked a question and i got an answer THANKS
English isn’t a language, it’s three languages stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat.
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