English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense - eviltoast
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    10 个月前

    It can be argued that most of the different meanings arise from different contexts and how the speakers associate that particular word to different uses. When an English speaker uses the word save, it can mean either “save a person from danger”, “save a computer file”, and many others, which can have different meaning-translations to other languages.