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Episode 2: We Have Lost Control of The Language, Voting for Congress is not a Federal Election - any more than a person (Dred Scott) was property.
Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, Seri is a cranky bitch. She doesn’t respect homonyms or synonyms, and every language is loaded with them. For example, there’s a difference, however slight, between a submarine & a submersible.Hack Number two Using homonyms or synonyms requires human discernment.Take it away Webster -- Homonym - a word with the same pronunciation as another but with a different meaning, origin or usually spelling. Webster NewWorld second edition (2002) P-304I know the modern usage is “homograph”, but it’s less precise in definition./Ed note.Synonym a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language. IBID.P642Next time I explain Lake Mead is not Rising, Lake Powell is being emptied another Hack number one of ChatWTF
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Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, Seri is a cranky bitch. She doesn’t respect homonyms or synonyms, and every language is loaded with them. For example, there’s a difference, however slight, between a submarine & a submersible.Hack Number two Using homonyms or synonyms requires human discernment.Take it away Webster -- Homonym - a word with the same pronunciation as another but with a different meaning, origin or usually spelling. Webster NewWorld second edition (2002) P-304I know the modern usage is “homograph”, but it’s less precise in definition./Ed note.Synonym a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the same language. IBID.P642Next time I explain Lake Mead is not Rising, Lake Powell is being emptied another Hack number one of ChatWTF