If you drink enough vodka, your blood becomes alcoholic.
In portuguese, we have a different word for alcoholic person (alcoolatra), which helps avoid this
And it’s got “cool” right in the name!
When a person is an ass, the word “ass” is a negative stigma. When an animal is an ass, it’s just a donkey.
A person can also have a nice ass
It’s also nearly impossible to defend alcohol consumption without sounding like an alcoholic.
I’ll take a stab at it.
It’s a safe drinking supply. That’s a big part of why humans drank it for thousands of years.
Sure before modern civilized times when the water supply was filthy with human waste, that’s why everyone had to drink alcohol. Because they polluted their own water supply with shit. Glad science figured things out and got us back to drinking water again.
One is a noun, the other an adjective, and as such they carry different meanings. For example, someone could eat a tart (baked good) that is not tart (sour).
Context matters. Go figure
Dammit DaMonsterKnees, you have Lupis.
It’s never lupus.
“Damn it, Beer, you’re alcoholic!”
Wine is an alcoholic beverage. Vodka is an alcoholic’s beverage.
If the adjective means, “has or pertaining to containing alcohol,” then it’s simply the chronic condition of a human choosing to be that way that draws the stigma.
Being an alcoholic is a negative trait; a Martini cannot beat his wife in drunken rage.
#NotAllAlcoholics 🍸
In Wisconsin “alcoholic” is only an adjective.
We don’t have alcoholics in the other sense here, just “professionals”.
You have discovered homonyms
Homonyms should not exist, get a new sound. i am the #1 homophobe
Wait, not like that
This bothers me. I looked it up and it’s right, but I want it to be wrong for words that have the same root meaning. It’s not like skate (the fish) and skate (the activity). You’re an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic. They’re so closely related.
Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?
I hate English.
You’re an alcoholic because your blood is alcoholic.
This is false, that’s not what the noun ‘alcoholic’ means.
Does this mean every second definition of a word in the dictionary is also a homonym? How different does it need to be?
“homonym” == “same-name”, so, yes by definition. it has the same name as another definition.
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Are you kidding? For a lot of alcoholics, their only redeeming quality (to their friends) is the fact that they’re an alcoholic. It’s an identity for a lot of people without one.
Sad but probably true… I was gonna say “I wouldn’t know” but then I recalled my army days, lol.
