“Sign” is just short for “signal”

“slang” is short for “short language” (Credit to Caroline)

Interesting observation:

“he’s supposed to be working”

and

“I supposed him to be working”

are semantically and idiomatically equivalent and “supposed” does the exact same thing in both, but is pronounced differently—with a hard ‘s’ in the former and a soft ‘s’ in the latter

‘of course’ makes so much sense oh my god like there’s an optimal course, and things are going well, so we’re on this optimal course, so we’re “of course”

re-frig-erator like re-frigid-erator

Why do we say “let me know X”? I’m not preventing you from knowing; you’re already _allowed_ (i.e. ‘let’) to know.

‘prep’ just stands for ‘prepare’

If someone is “unparalleled” then all lines intersect them, i.e. every other person eventually surpasses them

Something is “strict” if it has many re-strict-ions

oh “when life gives you lemons make lemonade” b/c lemons are SOUR but lemonade is SWEET

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