English is notoriously hard to learn, but contronyms may be trickiest words of all

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/contronym

@sc_griffith

i mean technically yeah, workers are entitled to benefits in return for the fruits of their labors, but lately when people say “entitled” they mean “with a greedy and unjustified sense of entitlement” i.e. “not entitled”

it’s a shame, but also amusing, when a word becomes its own antonym

#linguistics #autoantonym #contranym #contronym #antagonym

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym

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