You're a homo.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No it isn't. How would you vote on this before you knew what they were, and why? It seems like everyone who voted YYA voted just for the hell of it. HomoPHONE = samePHONE, sameSOUND, sameVOICE Like bear and bare or mat and matte. HomoNYM = same spelling and pronunciation Like a bow(tie) and a bow(archery) or a bow(ribbon). HomoGRAPH = sameGRAPH, sameWRITE, in other words same spelling. Like tear(rip) and tear. Homonyms are basically homophones and homographs combined. And no, homophones nyms and graphs are not at all homophones, homonyms or homographs.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I'm sorry, but what did you mean by your last sentence? I'm not being mean, so please don't yell at me. I'm just stupid and I'm confused.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Lol, I see how that could be confusing. I meant like how verbs themselves aren't verbs. "Verb" isn't a verb, it's a noun, right? Or if I was discussing similes and metaphors, and I said similes and metaphors are not, to each oher, similes nor metaphors. "Tear(rip)" and "tear" are homographs. "Homographs" and "homonyms" are NOT homographs. Do you see? I mean not them as themselves, but all of them together: they're not related to each other at all like tear and tear are, or like bow and bow are, or like bear and bare are.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Got it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, you don't have to be an ass about it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What do you mean? If someone doesn't know the difference between the three words in the post, they should vote YYA.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

He means that this isn't ironic at all.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

But it is ironic because all three of the words' definitions relate to similar-sounding or similar-looking words, and the words themselves may be confusing because they're similar-sounding and similar-looking. This is my post btw.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think his main problem with the post is that implies that the exact definitions of the words make it ironic, and they don't. I can't speak for him, though, so *shrug* I don't find it ironic either. Sorry :<

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They aren't "some words having to do with similarly-looking" at all! They're either exactly alike in pronunciation, exactly alike is spelling, or both at the same time. They have nothing to do with words that have the same prefix "homo-".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Okay, first of all, that was a complete misquote, I never said the thing you have in quotations. I'm not saying that the three words are homonyms/graphs/phones of each other. But if someone confuses their meaning because they all have the same prefix, it's ironic because the words have to do with words that sound or look (by which I mean, are spelled) alike.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

No. It'd be ironic if they were all homonyms of each other, but they're not even close. Having the same prefix in no way qualifies something to be any of those three. Ok, think of it like this: what if instead of the words homophone etc. they would be samesound, samespell and sameboth? Would it work then? No, because the three are NOT all the same, and having that little prefix does NOT make them the same, and having the same prefix does NOT make things the same. You're literally saying it's ironic if people forget the difference between "memory loss" and "memory lane" because they both start with "memory".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Again, I'm not saying they're the same. But they are similar--they all have the same prefix, followed by a somewhat nondescript syllable. The similarity in the structure as well as the meaning of the words makes them potentially confusing. "Memory loss" and "memory lane" have nearly opposite meanings, so that's not a good example. Homonym, homograph, and homophone all have similar meanings (indeed, "homograph" combines the meaning of the other two). They all have to do with words that sound or are spelled the same. If they had opposite meanings (say, if homograph meant spelled the same and homonym meant two words of different languages), then this post would not make sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know they are similar! What I'm saying is that THEY, by definition, have absolutey nothing to do with similarity between words. They all talk about EXACT and ABSOLUTE equivalents, of either spelling or pronunciation or both. Same and similar are completely different things, and this is why you're wrong.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well, I'm glad we're narrowing it down. "Same" and "similar" aren't completely different. "Same" and "different" are completely different. "Similar" and "dissimilar" are completely different. "Same" and "similar" are close enough in definition that the two words are actually sometimes mentioned in each other's definition. I get that the joke isn't perfect. It would be a perfect joke if homonym/graph/phone were homonyms/graphs/phones of each other. But the post does make sense and there is irony.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not ironic and it doesn't make sense. People who voted YYA just didn't take a single second to think about it. Homophones nyms and graphs have nothing to do with being SIMILAR, they've only got to do with being ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL, therefore being similar between themselves does not make them relate to the terms "homophone" "homonym" and "homograph". I realise that this is your post and you will try to defend it til the end of time like a child, but you're wrong and this argument is going nowhere. At least the 200+ people who agreed are on your side, don't mind me, I'm just the one person who actually thinks about things on here.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So you disagree with the post because similarity and sameness aren't identical concepts, and you feel that they are in fact "completely different". Got it. By the way, plenty of people disagreed with the post and far less than 200 people agreed.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well in that case I'm the only one who speaks for those who disagreed, realising this post is bollocks. I bet not even all that disagreed thought this through, and just disagreed for their own reasons. And don't worry, this post will reach 200 YYAs in no time at all. I see we both certainly misunderstand each other, and very often too, so this argument is not going anywhere and will not, ever.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I agree with you oftentimes too :(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I kinda have a crush on you actually, that's why I arguee </3

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Haha, that's quite good. Very original end to an argument.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I love grammar fights.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Technically, it wasn't a grammar fight.

by Anonymous 12 years ago