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And if I say I cleaved the halves together, you’d have no chance of thinking that I meant I cut them apart. It’s English, you need context to tell what definiti
by lovich 4y ago
And if I say I cleaved the halves together, you’d have no chance of thinking that I meant I cut them apart. It’s English, you need context to tell what definition is being used for any word with multiple definitions
- IshKebab 4y ago> I cleaved the halves together I would say what are you talking about? That makes no grammatical sense.
- lovich 4y agoIt does? One definition of cleave is to join or adhere things together. It’s not a new slang definition, you can look it up in any dictionary.
- IshKebab 4y agoI did look it up in a dictionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cleave#Etymology_2 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cleave#Etymology_2 > (intransitive, rare) Followed by' to or unto: to adhere, cling, or stick fast to something. Something can cleave to another thing, but you can't cleave two things together. It's grammatically the same as the word "cling". You can cling to something but you can't cling two things together. It doesn't make sense.