Well, it's easy to come up with egregious examples and show how English could have been better designed, but you overgeneralize. The fact is that we rely on multimethod dispatch all the time in any natural language, and it's
just a minor lexical miracle that you don't even notice that you're using homophones with different meanings:
The chicken is ready to eat.
The children are ready to eat.
In short, you're relying heavily on MMD yourself when you use overloaded words like:
appreciate well clear product clumsy combination course as makes life handle buy should use kind argument
MMD is useful because it lets you express metaphorical correspondences. To trot out the Inkling's favorite example, a "piercing sweetness" may be neither piercing nor sweet, literally speaking, but your MMD dispatcher is even smart enough to autogenerate missing methods and dispatch to them.
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