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Sun Oct 13 06:39:33 CEST 2013 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129511.html

Cameron Simpson wrote:

>> >polysemic: having more than one meaning; having multiple meanings
>> 
>> IMHO a poor word to use.  I'm a middle aged Brit who's never heard
>> of it so people who have English as a second language have little or
>> no chance :(
> 
> IMO a fine word. New to me, but perfectly clear and memorable once
> explained.
> 
> People with English as a second language might do better than us
> if they've cottoned onto the patterns arising from the root languages,
> versus a native speaker basing things entirely on memory.

just as a data point: polysemic (from my italian native language) it's 
pretty "self-explanatory": "poly-" it's a very common prefix for "many", and 
"semic" has the same root of "semantic". Btw the italian version (polisemia) 
it's pronounced almost the same, so it's "an easy one" to translate.

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