How people learn English as a second language is beyond me. What a dumb language that those all have significantly different meanings

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Do other languages not have emphasis that changes meaning? Is this uniquely English???

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Certainly some do, I don’t believe it’s universal though? I think the other European languages do generally? I know nothing on the topic though

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“Atop” and “afloat” have the prefix “a,” meaning “on” or “to.” “Atom” does not have the same prefix. It’s just like that.

People always talk about using a time machine to kill Hitler, but what about William the Conqueror?

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I never said we should kill him.

Italicize yourself and everyone around you.

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I never! Said we should kill him!

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I never said

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