Learning with @vesaldi that intimated is a word after we thought it was a typo. And it has nothing to do with intimate. Or intimidate. Why is English like this?
@firecoals And slang. And stealing words from other languages too.
@PlanetaryKnight @firecoals Frequently more than once! English's best trick for confusing us is developing a loan word, then continuing to use the foreign word as such, then developing ANOTHER loan word from it.
Like how there are like 17 different English words all borrowed from the french "suite".
@Nentuaby @firecoals
YEP. Bizarre.
@firecoals @PlanetaryKnight ngl I read this as "English is just a mess of hormones" and I was like yes yes this seems legit
@vesaldi @firecoals
Makes sense to me.
Or it's like. TECHNICALLY a secondary/tertiary meaning of intimate but not one we usually use. And intimated is used more in the past tense verb sense. THIS IS ALL WEIRD.
@PlanetaryKnight Welcome to English
@jessmahler
Been speaking it for 29 years and yet.
@PlanetaryKnight I'm a linguistics hobbyist, and the more I learn about English the less I understand it.
@jessmahler
There's just. SO MUCH.
@PlanetaryKnight wait whaaaat
hmm language peeps @lizardsquid calling ya in
@LottieVixen @lizardsquid
I just always thought it meant like close/personal/sometimes romantic/among close friends. But apparently it also means to make aware/known/hint at.
@PlanetaryKnight @vesaldi Haha awesome. I know Jack through Dorian K on Twitter.
@alice lmao I know Jack because I followed him on Twitter and then he complained about something very specific to my employer and I realized we worked at the same place. (Just different offices.)
@PlanetaryKnight ok that's hilarious
@alice It has been fun and now he work-IM's me things where he thinks there are typos and we both laugh about it before realizing we're just completely ignorant and there's another word, apparently.
@PlanetaryKnight English is fucked up. What else can be said?
@alice
True story.
@PlanetaryKnight @vesaldi English is a mess of homophones and synonyms. meeeeega refund. it's.all the word theft.