What is meant by English having a lot of "angles"?

Many ways to get to the end goal.

Can you elaborate please? Get to the end goal of expressing something?

Could it be that we have numerous variations of the same word

Their
There
They're

Wind that blows
Wind the toy

etc etc?

^Possible. One example I read was that "wake" is what you do in the morning and at a funeral and that "morning" is the beginning of the day as well as what you do at a funeral.

But that poster didn't use the term "angles".

Last Edited by Damaniel on 03/18/2017 11:15 PM

Use it in a sentence.

Most people just keep running around in circles.

I wake at 7am each morning.

Sara mourned deeply for her husband at the wake.

Last Edited by Damaniel on 03/18/2017 11:43 PM

I don't think that's what they meant from what I read.

I think it was the romans who said the people
living in england at the time looked like
angels so they named them something
like angel
. You can read about it if you search online.
The french word for the english
is anglais but
they also call them les goddamms because they
were known for saying goddamn and other cusswords
so much.

They've got a lot of Saxons too.

I guess it's just a legend about a pope
saying they had angelic faces. You can read
about it on wikipedia here [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)]

Never heard of that occult stuff, OP, and I've been an English teacher.

The thing that you could be picking up on is the fact that English has myriad ways of saying the same thing but each way has a very subtle difference, or spin, or 'angle'.

That's because English has a very rich vocabulary with words loaned from scores of other languages.

Shakespeare is almost godlike in his ability to use English in so many ways with an amazingly wide vocabulary.

Rather more obscure and tenuous in respect of your question is the fact that what we now call 'English' derives from the ancient people called Angles (of Anglo-Saxon fame). Quite literally, English was the language of the Angles.

If I were to guess I would say that there are many ways to say the same thing including slang terms.

Beautiful= hot, smoking, knock out, etc.

How many words are there just for a woman's breasts.... a lot

Thanks for the info. I think I read a few of that things but haven't seen the other info. I'll have to read Shakespeare's work.

Occult may not be the best word. It seemed like the times I heard the angles referred to they seem to suggest certain combinations of words have more power or something. Like how God spoke the world into existence.

But maybe that's what they meant, different ways to say the thing: same words to say different things. I was justing thinking of how that ole "Side to Side" song has a triple meaning:
*The salacious, intended meaning
*An allusion to MKUltra torture
*Straying from the straight and narrow path of God

Edit-Sorry for typos, trying to post from phone

Last Edited by Damaniel on 03/19/2017 01:17 AM

Homonyms, homophone, and homographs. Are you asking why they exist?

I've heard that about hidden meanings in our words too. Occult means hidden. Like television programs, programming etc.

No, not why they exist. Rather if words, especially the English language, have esoteric power or energy. If English was intelligently designed for a purpose. And what's meant by "angles".

Last Edited by Damaniel on 03/19/2017 01:21 AM

It's because they can never get to the point.

Old thread but wanted to add that yesterday I learned that "pineal" as in the pineal gland sort has two meanings. It come from the Latin word "pinea" which means pine cone and also sounds like Peniel, a place name in the Bible that means "face of God".

it is of having many protractors and tooling of for the stenciling.

you're misspelling it.

the correct spelling is "penial gland"

Angel = angle.

Angle of light. Messenger of light.

From which light is directed through the prism (pineal) at a certain angle.

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And when you achieve that, you become a fully realised HUE-man. Hue = colour. And a TRUE ANGLE-man.

Angles versus Angels are different words and entirely different meanings in the English language.

This is NOT "The King's English"

Neat find @ HUE-man