#homographes

[logogreffe]

Une bombe :

That's it, that's the post.

[gramemoofficiel]

Évident ou évident – Attention, homographes !

Bonjour à tous ! Soyez les bienvenus pour ce nouvel article, consacré aux homographes (non homophones) évident et évident. Si vous n’avez pas lu nos articles précédents : les homographes non homophones sont des mots qui s’écrivent exactement de la même manière, mais ont des prononciations et des sens totalement différents.Vous pouvez cliquer ici pour découvrir d’autres homographes. Continue…

[realmsalot]

Homographs AU

12 Raph: *standing on a kitchen counter holding Rise Raph by the shoulders*

12 Raph: Don't you want to let loose? Don't you ever want to get angry! DON'T YOU WANNA GO APESHI-

12 Leo: *mom glares*

12 Raph: Ape. Just ape.

[nocturnal-riptide]

So someone misspelled holographic boots "homographic boots"

How can I walk straight when even my boots aren't straight?!

[kikuism]

waffle has to be my favorite word that functions as both a noun and a verb

[funkyspecial]

What if I made a new Playlist and called it

Les chanson de le pain

"The songs of bread"

But also it's got a funny interlingual homograph

~la baguette

[approachtheancientkeep]

[johnbottoms]

come verb cum noun is the ONLY thing that makes sense. god.

[iamyounicorn]

∞

"Eu rio, você ama Eu rio, cê oceano"

[I laugh, you love it I river, you ocean]

(Estrondo by Plutão Já Foi Planeta)

[startsbeatboxing]

wanted to find a number generator and instead just looked up "die" and was confused when I could not find any results

[petermorwood]

So far I haven’t encountered this nonsense with ProWritingAid - but then I handle ProWritingAid incorrect suggestions with a whip and a chair, and tend to see any given error only once. Having built a customised spellcheck dictionary is also a great help.

Of course, having mentioned that I haven’t had any trouble, and Murphy's Law being what it is, let’s see what happens next.

AFAIK, whenever an error like this pops up the thing to do is correct it, and do whatever clicking means the app or program remembers the correction.

It helps to know what the correction IS, of course.

If in doubt, check. From the above info it looks like a lot of people don't bother and just click the error, reinforcing it as "correct".

Dictionaries aren’t expensive, second-hand ones are downright cheap, and IMO it doesn’t matter that older dictionaries don’t have New Words added in the past few years, they’ll have a hundred thousand or so of Old Words - and their meanings - which are still in common use.

I was given this thing when I was but a lad...

...and since nobody had told me you don’t read dictionaries like novels, that’s exactly what I did. 

So...

A spell-checker might catch me out on a misspelling - for instance I’ve an odd blind spot about “I-before-E-except-after-C” - but it’s not getting away with suggesting I use “rein” instead of “reign”, or “horde” instead of “hoard”, and let’s not get into stuff like “read” and “read” or “lead”, “lead” and “led”.

“I read (red) it last week” and “I read (reed) it every day”, also “lead (led) is heavy”, “you can lead (leed) a horse to water”, “my dog bites his lead (leed)” and “I was led (led) down the garden path”.

I wonder what AI would make of that lot.

Isn’t English fun? :->

googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly

[gramemoofficiel]

Vis et vis – Attention, homographes !

Bonjour à tous ! Soyez les bienvenus pour ce nouvel article, consacré aux homographes (non homophones) vis et vis. Si vous n’avez pas lu nos articles précédents : les homographes sont des mots qui s’écrivent exactement de la même manière, mais ont des prononciations et des sens totalement différents.Vous pouvez cliquer ici pour découvrir d’autres homographes. Continue reading Vis et vis –…

[realmsalot]

Homographs AU post Rise movie

Cassandra: Hey! Meet my son from the future. He's your nephew.

Casey Jr: Hi!

12 April: Does that mean I get to be a wine aunt?

12 Casey: I CALL FUN UNCLE!

12 Donnie: What! How come you get to be the fun uncle?!

12 Casey: I think it's pretty obvious why.

12 April: Don't worry Donnie, you can be the nerdy uncle.

12 Donnie, muttering: But I wanted to be the fun uncle...

[netscapenavigator-official]

There are a lot of homographs in the English language (words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings.)

However, the word "state" honestly feels like it shouldn't be.

State (a location); State (speaking); and State (status) should all be spelled different. Especially the last one. Every time I use state in a way that's like "the state of things," the word just feels like it should be spelled different. Like "stait" or something. There's just something about it. Usually homographs have the same ~vibe~, even if their meanings and use cases are entirely different.

Not state (place) and state (status), though. The word state, when used to refer to the status of something, just has the ~vibes~ of a word that's spelled different.

[allatariel]

To follow on from the incomparable @dduane above, it's FREE REIN, not free reign! If you've been given free rein, you are no longer held back by the REINS and are FREE to do as you will.

Additionally, it's MAKE DO, not make do. As in 'we will MAKE DO with what we have.' We will manage with what is available, usually something inferior or ill-suited to the task.

TO RIFLE—to make a vigorous or thorough search through something, particularly with the intent to take or steal

TO RIFFLE—to thumb, leaf, shuffle, flick through usually paper, pages, books, cards

WANT—as in for WANT of, to lack or need something, to desire something

WONT—as in 'is one's WONT', something one is accustomed or used to, in the habit of doing

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[lord-save-me]

My talent is the ability to always pick the wrong homograph