Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agoIf a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word?message-squaremessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareIf a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square66fedilink
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoNot really. A word with every meaning is meaningless itself, since it doesn’t allow you to narrow down the word’s intended meaning from the set of all possible meanings.
minus-squaremilicent_bystandr@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months ago [audience looks around] ‘What just happened?’ ‘There must be some context we’re missing.’
Not really. A word with every meaning is meaningless itself, since it doesn’t allow you to narrow down the word’s intended meaning from the set of all possible meanings.