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Difference between "weird" and "uncanny" ? Hi everybody, Could someone tell me if there is a difference between these two words. Thanks :)
2 feb 2020 12:26
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The definitions are pretty similar but the common usage is a bit different. Weird is used in a really wide variety of situations to describe people or things that one deems unusual/strange/creepy, whereas in normal conversation, uncanny is almost exclusively used when people or situations bear a striking and unsettling resemblance to each other. Ex 1 "That guy keeps looking at us, it's so weird." Ex 2 "Hey that guy over there looks EXACTLY like Jimmy...it's uncanny!" You can use weird in example 2 and that would be fine, but to native speakers it might sound strange (or weird!) if you use uncanny in example 1.
2 febbraio 2020
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