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@MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social to memes@lemmy.world • 20 hours ago

Language is fun.

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Language is fun.

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  • @GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2•2 hours ago

    Bull needs roller skates.

    Goat needs gloves.

  • Lovable Sidekick
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    7 hours ago

    Whatcha bein’ so meta for?

  • Ech
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    5•9 hours ago

    Compulsory viewing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzw2iBmRsjs

  • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    73•19 hours ago

    Forgive my ignorance, but what is that? A goat? What’s the homonym?

    • @daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world
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      1•7 hours ago

      candy store 'n up ass ride dick or something, one of those ligma jokes

    • @CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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      163•19 hours ago

      “Like a kid in a candy store”, kid = baby goat instead of human child.

      • @ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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        I thought it was store (shop) and store (storage) but yours makes more sense

      • Jesus
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        29•18 hours ago

        I should start saying “like a goat in a candy store”

      • @NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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        25•19 hours ago

        Ah yes, of course

        • mosiacmango
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          homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Their/there/they’re are classic examples.

          • konalt
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            30•18 hours ago

            That’s a homophone, a homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same but has different meanings, like “tap” as in “faucet” and “tap” as in the action of tapping a surface.

            • Evkob (they/them)
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              Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they’re/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).

              • @tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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                1•7 hours ago

                Handy chart

              • @moody@lemmings.world
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                1•16 hours ago

                Led is not spelled the same as lead.

                • Evkob (they/them)
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                  7•10 hours ago

                  Led is the past tense of the verb “to lead”.

                  Led is a homophone of lead (the metal) whereas lead is a homograph of lead (again, the metal).

                • @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  8•12 hours ago

                  yes, but lead is

                • @prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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                  7•15 hours ago

                  Lead however is spelled the same as lead, so their point remains.

    • @LammaLemma@lemmy.ca
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      20•18 hours ago

      Bull in a China shop - Idiom that describes a clumsy person. The second one is a a kid in a candy store where kid means baby goat as well as a child (human)

      • @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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        In German, it’s an elephant instead of a bull is someone is curious

        • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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          8•14 hours ago

          We’ve learned enough about Germans in the last few days on Lemmy.

          • @musubibreakfast@lemm.ee
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            2•9 hours ago

            I don’t wish to learn any more about Germany

            • @huppakee@lemm.ee
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              In Dutch it’s also an elephant in case you do want to learn more about Dutch :)

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      14•19 hours ago

      “Kid” in candy store.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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      deleted by creator

  • @CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    26•19 hours ago

    Took me too long to realize that a “China Shop” isn’t a place to shop chinese things.

    • Lung
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      26•19 hours ago

      That’s just any store

    • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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      5•16 hours ago

      Most China shops are this too really.

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