Why do some words in english just have too many unrelated definitions in them that they could just be their own words
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If you were building a new language from scratch you would probably avoid this right? Unfortunately the overwhelming majority of languages people use (and all of the ones people speak as a first language) are NOT that way. They develop slowly over time from many different sources with hundreds to millions of speakers. As a result words can have different meanings that derive from different sources and usages and then when they come together both are still valid.
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