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Complex usage of English words.

For example:

The words "For" and "Four"
The word "For" is used to "Indicate" something.
The word "Four" means there are "Four" of something.
Or perhaps that there are "Four" slices of fruit.
You could say that a pineapple is best cut in "Fours".
And then the "Fours" require each of their "Cores" removed.
"Before" slicing each section of fours into smaller pieces.
"For" such "Cores" are hard.
And each "Fourth" is needed to be cut, "For" they are large pieces.
Until cut smaller.
 
"More"
The word "More" can be used in a few ways.
Someone could ask, "May I have "more" pineapple slices.
Or, when the pineapple is being cut, the person cutting the pineapple could conclude "I need more pineapples to cut."
Perhaps the pineapple slices are rather larger.
The person cutting the pineapple could cut the slices many times "more."
Or perhaps those eating the pineapple are given "four" slices each.
And after the first pineapple, those eating the pineapple could ask, "Could you cut four pineapples more?"
Those interested in more pineapple slices to eat might thus say, "For we are hungry for more."
Or perhaps such pineapples are saved for later, leaving many pineapples "more".
 

pmmg

Myth Weaver
It gets far worse than that ;)

Read/Read? Which is which. Have I read it, or am I getting ready to read it?
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
There was a headline in a local paper...
Reading in Reading controversy...
I still don't know if it was the town [Reading] or the act of reading that had a controversy attached to it...
 

skip.knox

toujours gai, archie
Moderator
I don't see this as complex at all. It's merely variegated. Every word has its own meaning in its own context. It's part of what makes language a delight rather than a chore.
 

Dylan

Scribe
For example:

The words "For" and "Four"
The word "For" is used to "Indicate" something.
The word "Four" means there are "Four" of something.
Or perhaps that there are "Four" slices of fruit.
You could say that a pineapple is best cut in "Fours".
And then the "Fours" require each of their "Cores" removed.
"Before" slicing each section of fours into smaller pieces.
"For" such "Cores" are hard.
And each "Fourth" is needed to be cut, "For" they are large pieces.
Until cut smaller.
Feels like a tongue-twister for the brain! English is wild like that, same sounds, completely different meanings and somehow it all makes sense… eventually.
 
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