Contronym ("to dust" can mean "to remove dust" or "to add dust")
Contronym ("to dust" can mean "to remove dust" or "to add dust")
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I've got a pretty tunny one in Spanish: jamás. Its definitions are:
- never
- (No longer used) always
- (No longer used) sometimes
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Huesped is like that, too.
It means both host and guest.
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They get away with it because in any case there’s normally only one obvious dust-related thing to do.
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But what if I want to dust a bookshelf so it looks older and unkempt?
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How do you make a redirection in another language? In French, le page should be https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89nantios%C3%A9mie.
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In German, we have "umfahren" (to drive around) and "umfahren" (to run somebody over).