Apparently this reminder is needed.
It is a meme.
English is not the only language with homonyms.
In French if something isn't functioning properly you say that "il ne marche pas." Now, in my studies, "marche" means "walk." So to me that says "it doesn't walk." I asked a native speaker about that and they told me, no, that is not what that means.
Same in German. "Es geht nicht."
Soldier, plug, varnish, wax seal, some dude, seal?
Navy seal , rubber seal, wood seal wax seal, Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, animal seal
Ah yes, the navy seal in the middle of the desert.
And still people think global warming isn’t a problem.
Military, air filter, paint brush, wax seal, Mike Tyson, sea-lion!
What's the common word for the first row?
The top row was a little harder for me as I saw soldier, rubber something, and paint brush. The bottom I saw all seals.
The top is Navy Seal, rubber something seal, and sealing wood with a paint brush.
Three of those are the same thing and the other three are named after each other
Google for a poem called "The Chaos". It starts with "Dearest creature in creation". Read it out loud without errors.
Here it is. I was going to paste the whole text in here until I realized what a monster of a poem it is.
As a native speaker, dang, that's not easy!
A few words I'm not sure on.
This poem could be the final test of an English course.
Fun fact, the word 'set' has 430 definitions.
That's quite a set of definitions
If the set of definitions contains the word set, does the English language implode in a recursive cascade of paradoxes?
A set can totally contain itself. A better question would be: Consider a set, that contains all sets, that do not contain themself. Would that set contain itself?
It would. Source: I just shaved my beard
English is only "hard" because it is shit. There ain't no rules for nothing. All the "rules" have exceptions, which have exceptions, which have have exceptions.
Navy SEAL is an acronym. Doesn’t count.
So? "Laser" and "radar" are acronyms, but we use them as words
But an acronym that was intentionally made to be the name of the animal, so it's just a duplicate, like all three of the non-singer seals, which just mean to lock something in or out. There are only 2 meanings of seal here, plus a singer who named himself after one of them.
Come on, you can't count Seal the musician... That's not a common name in English speaking countries. I've never heard of anyone else named Seal
English is easy. The hardest part about it, which some other languages also feature, is a poor correspondence between the written and spoken language.
Damn. I keep being surprised by how many people take stuff online way too seriously. Good meme, you get my seal of approval
But all the three non human non animal things basically do the same thing. They prevent things from leaking out or in. So the word seal is apt.
Through, though, hiccough, slough, bough, and cough don't rhyme
Nobody says hiccough.
Literally everyone says that word. They just pronounce it hiccup.
No, we all say hiccup. FFS, googling "hiccough" essentially autocorrects to hiccup. If everyone spells it hiccup and also pronounces it hiccup, literally no one is using "hiccough".
two are proper nouns, so dont count. three mean 'to close something' (more or less). one is an animal.
i see really only two homonyms in total.
3 of those are basically the same definition. And one of them is just named after another one of them.
The lack of Lucille jokes here has me worried about the future of Lemmy
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