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Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wej (adv)
• Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 20:29:38 EDT

In a message dated 2004-08-13 4:46:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Are you bothered by the homophony of English "two"/"too"/"to"?  "I see two" 
> and "I see too" sound exactly the same.  How do you keep them straight in 
> English?
> 
> How about "one"/"won"?  Or "four"/"for"/"for"?  Or "eight"/"ate"?  Or 
> "none"/"nun".  Etc.
> 

Almost all of these English homophones involve words that can't really be 
confused with each other except out of context.   The exception is "too/two".  
Many times I've avoided the word "too" and used the word "also" instead.  It 
didn't sound as natural, but it got my point across.  

(I just noticed that all the powers of two less than ten have homophones in 
English:  one/won, two/too/to, four/for/fore, eight/ate, and you gave all of 
them...  In fact, *all* of the homophones you gave are numbers, counting 
"none/nun".  wow!)

lay'tel SIvten

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