Grammar

I just ran into this sentence inĀ Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding

You’re probably used to type systems in languages like C and Java

and marveled at its ambiguity. “Used” and “type” have several different grammatical meanings. As Hobbes (of Calvin and Hobbes) said

Verbing weirds language.

(The article itself is very interesting, and the reddit comments are good, too.)

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