#English is an #ambiguous #language.
If you doubt, try to explain what do I mean if I write "Lead is lead."
@mc In this sorta context style my immediate thought is 'Pb=Pb'.
@trinsec
Why not 'to lead' is 'Pb' (heavy)?
@mc Because that doesn't really make sense to me.
The word "lead" has a lot of meaning, it can be a noun or a verb. By saying "is", that implies that the first "lead" is most likely a a noun, then the second would be a noun or a adjective. But the only adjective forms of lead are “leadless” or “leaden”, so that second “lead” in the sentence can’t be an adjective.
>"Why not 'to lead' is 'Pb' (heavy)?"
"To lead" is a different form than just "lead". If you wanted to say that, it would be "To lead is leaden", or "Leading is leaden", or "Leadership is leaden".
>"The word "lead" has a lot of meaning..."
I have no idea how those words came to appear the way they did in my toot. This is how my brain wrote that toot:
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The word "lead" has a many different meanings, it can be a noun or a verb. By saying "is", it implies that the first "lead" is most likely a noun, then the second would be a noun or an adjective. But the only adjective forms of lead are “leadless” or “leaden”, so that second “lead” in the sentence can’t be an adjective.
>"Why not 'to lead' is 'Pb' (heavy)?"
"To lead" is a different form than just "lead". If you wanted to say that, it would be "To lead is leaden", or "Leading is leaden", or "Leadership is leaden".
Also, I was wrong about the adjective forms. There is another adjective form of lead I didn’t think of – “She is the lead singer.”)
@trinsec @mc