There exist many words whose meanings are opposites of themselves. You may ask, How can a word be an antonym of itself? Through polysemy an...
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Breaking words down in more than one way
There are some cases in which morphemes can be ambiguous. Take the following word: unionized The more familiar meaning is "formed into...
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Indirect speech acts and violating the maxims
Indirect speech acts are used all the time, they have basically become second nature to us. Here's an example: A: Has the boss arrived...
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Negative prefixes adding no meaning?
There are words in English that can take a negative prefix, such as in- , and the meaning of that word will remain the same. Is there reall...
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Foreign expressions misinterpreted?
When English borrows certain expressions or phrases from other languages, we are sometimes not used to those expressions and have some troub...
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