I was thinking about this today for some reason.l Ever think about how words can have 50,000 different meanings, some very different.. and yet the same? Take the word 'fine' for example:
1.Of superior quality, skill, or appearance.
2.Being in a state of satisfactory health; quite well.
3.Satisfactory; acceptable.
-the word fine is also often used as a quick answer.. it could mean could be better but can't complain. It could mean i'm doing good. It could mean i'm not doing so good but i dont feel like telling you that. It could mean a lot of things. I've used it as all of those before, so just saying. Why not just say not too bad, or good instead of fine? It goes in a lot of directions. I mean, i'm doing 'fine' right now. Who knows what that means? No one. But fine is fine so i'll leave it at that. This made a lot more sense and it had a point when i started typing it but i lost it so.. i'm going to bed.
night
posted by bethmarie @ 10:19 PM
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Homonyms
hom·o·nym (hŏm'ə-nĭm', hō'mə-)
One of two or more words that have the same sound and often the same spelling but differ in meaning, such as bank (embankment) and bank (place where money is kept).
A word used to designate several different things.
hom·o·phone (hŏm'ə-fōn', hō'mə-)
One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.
yeah.. you weren't wrong but neither was i.
homophone
n : two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both.
So two words that sound the same but have different meanings or spellings are like one word that has different meanings but the words are spelled the same...
yeah. take well. Well means okay, and it also means a hole in the ground you take water from. They're still the same word because they're spelled the same, but with different meanings. But, they're also two words because they have two different meanings. Make sense?
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