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>>And then, for the nth time, I find that someone wrote "I resemble that remark". What does this mean, he's (they is?) similar to a sentence? Is this a deviation from "I resent that remark", or is this a way to fix a flaw in the dictionary - "no word left behind with a single meaning, they should all graduate to multiple meanings".
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>My recollection is that "I resemble that remark" is a line from The Three Stooges. Sorry, I don't have a more precise reference - I think it was Moe, but maybe Curly who committed this classic malapropism. Your linguistic education is not complete until you've seen every single episode!

Ah, so it's just a different set of coordinates. You can't properly understand spoken Serbian, no matter where you learned it, until you've learned by heart the two dozen cult movies and the thousand basic jokes, because almost everybody is alluding to them. Here, it's the TV.