#are homophones

[its-a-human-person]

wow a art

i was bored

so i made a bord

#gettit #cuz like #bored and bord #are homophones #different meanings #same pronunciation #do ya gettit #anyway give hte man some sleep #also its a AU! kinda #anyway i was gonna save it for forduary but decided not to #bord #ciphord #bill cipher #ford pines #stanford pines #gravity falls #gravity falls fanart #paranoid ford #my art ig

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Why do homophones exist?

Eye halve know clew.

Its A reel gambol too chews witch whirred two yews.

#homophone #not technically unreality #just english being weird #homophones #english

[hychlorions]

#.docx #they're homophones. to me

[freckleslikestars]

FARSCAPE | 1.06 Thank God It's Friday, Again.

#I love this exchange so much specifically because it tells us a lot about how the translator microbes work. I mean. I highly doubt that – at #least at this point – john has ever discussed woodies with Aeryn. #But I can quite easily imagine that he’s at one point looked at some alien thing shuddered and gone ‘ugh. Gives me the willies.’ #And since aeryn’s translator microbes picked that up and returned it with woody we can kind of see how they work. #It’s taken willie – a colloquial term for penis – and substituted it with another colloquial term for penis – woody. #The problem is that these terms both have connotations that the microbes don’t pick up on #hence the incorrect substitution. #However they do seem to do okay with homophones #presumably based on context. #It’s like how back in like 2012 if you typed a word into google translate that didn’t translate well #it would give you it’s best guess #and then if you translated it back it would just have a completely different meaning. Essentially translator microbes work probably as well #farscape #aeryn sun #claudia black #syfysource #cinematv #filmtvcentral #chewieblog #smallscreensource #usercreate #userthing #farscapeedit #john crichton #ben browder #farscape gifs #my gifs #claudia black gifs #dailytvwomen #popcultureds

[saltedcoffeee]

kuai liang voice "tomas has always been fond of lizards"

#can't wait for syzoth to get adopted by the shirai ryu in story mode 2 #myart #mk1 #mortal kombat #mortal kombat 1 #smoke #tomas vrbada #scorpion #kuai liang #syzoth #reptile #symas #bi-han voice gahhh no wonder people are homophonic this is scary af

[knifebaby3000]

day/night

#artists on tumblr #art #oc #digital art #my art #tz #tian #zhu #more warm ups... outfits they would hate... feat their corny tattoos i haven't gotten to show til now for fairly obv reasons #btw zhu writes his name w the char for red/vermilion vs the tru char for pearl (珠 which includes the jade radical) but they're homophones #so it's a play on ''pearl in the palm'' which is like ''apple of your eye''. gay married and in love and i love them etc etc etc #''so what's the significance of 天 on z's ass'' nothing! he's just obsessed w his man! gay married in love i love them #i would've posted these as a set w will but i perfectly small-brained his 🤙 and then proceeded 2 overthink these 🤙so tz together as usual

[nighttimepatrons]

Glaurung the golden.

#middle earth #my art #Glaurung #dragons #silmarillion #tolkien #coh #children of hurin #traditional art #hey what if the father of dragons had that bug ass vibe? #he's homophonic (sweeping Fingon and Maedhros apart) #but he is pro incest #so there's that.

[catwif3]

it's time to move "vocabulary mixup lessons with sao" from twitter to tumblr!

today's common fanfic fuckup that slays the man:

flout: to disobey or avoid

flaunt: to loudly/ostentatiously display

these two are very disconcerting to see mixed up!! you don't USUALLY "flaunt" the rules, and you certainly don't "flout" your new outfit!

#homophones with sao #vocabulary lessons #fanfic woes

[littlestpersimmon]

Aslevjal

#rote #right after civics homophonic rant and Fitz beats the shit out of him #Fitz and the fool #Robin Hobb #tawny man

[swordscleric]

The Rain Road as Gaeilge

I am by no means a translator, but I do speak Irish fluently and have played trad for years (although I've lapsed due to college and work), so when the fireside chat mentioned having the Rain Road in Irish I had to throw my own spin on it. I may also record a version of it in Irish but we'll see. Shoutout to @franavu for also inspiring me with their Dutch translation!

An Bóthar Báistí

[First Verse/Céad Véarsa]

Áit go mbíonn na tonnta ag lapadaíl Ag an gcoill cois fharraige Airímis casadh an taoide Le grá chomh daingean le crainn

[Chorus/Cór]

Leag do drúcht-sa ar croí na coille I dtost na dtoinn nach madhmann a thuilleadh Fáisc mé le d’ucht, roimh m’imeachta Ar bhóthar báistí, slí na mara

[Bridge/Droichead]

An gcuirfear fuacht sa talamh? An bhfágfar muid gan samhradh? An gcuirfidh stoirm muid, ó bhealach Scartha ón gcladach, ‘gus ón gcoill

[Chorus/Cór]

Is mise an drúcht ar croí na coille ’gus tost na dtoinn nach madhmann a thuilleadh Fáisc mé le d’ucht, a ghrá, sula bhfágaim go deo Ar bhóthar báistí, slí na mara

Ar bhóthar báistí, slí na mara

#worlds beyond number #wbn pod #the wizard the witch and the wild one #fireside chat #gaeilge #fun facts about the translation: crainn (trees) and croí (heart) are homophones #as is gcoill (eclipsis on coill meaning forest) and goill (a verb meaning to distress vex or hurt) #this is a very rough translation so i apologise if i didn't use more poetic translations in advance

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

祁煜 Qi Yu / Rafayel from Love and Deepspace

#china #games #love and deepspace #qi yu #rafayel #lads rafayel #lads #his original chinese name is pronounced as a homophone of the chinese word 奇遇qí yù/miraculous encounter #there are quite a few characters called qi yu in many different chinese fadoms for this reason #credit as watermark

[clown-eating-pig]

So so desperately wish that I could draw jmart consistently bc I would make them so silly 😔

#tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jmart #teaholding #tma fanart #a little #like if fanart had no substance and was a little bit bad #I just like to imagine Jon being a little rascal occasionally #and Martin being a little homophonic #/j /j /j #that’s just what I would do if I was being romantically teased #by my the gay person I love #you get it

[xxalphaclownxx]

man idek they’re just tiny lil pony sillys 🤷‍♂️

#woof gin’s art meow #mlp friendship is magic #my little pony #pinkie pie #twighlight sparkle #twipie #twighlight #lookit them #bbys fr fr #i love them omg #I SWEAR IM NOT A BRONY #but the honse gfs #cmon #honse gfs reign supreme #get it? #reign #but also horse reigns #idk how to spell homophones tbh #oops oh well

[kirkendauhl-v2]

I heard someone call fake hippies with rich parents "Trustafarians" and I haven't been the same since

#fixed a typo #usually im very good with homophones but i had to spell czech Rastafarianism to make sure i got the portmanteau spelled right and it threw #me off my usual game #homonym* I feel like a failure. and i love linguistics #if was actually a nerd id study etymology

[gendercensus]

Just say you don’t wanna change it because it’s too much work please don’t pretend that that reply made any sense

If people wanted to have the name Ren they wouldn't spell it Wren, because Ren is a gender-neutral name of Japanese origin and Wren is an English word for a particular bird (or several particular birds, depending on where you're from).

Aside from anything else, I think it's kind of rude and disrespectful to treat them as being the same name. (They might be the same name to some people who go by one of those names, but assuming that they are the same name to everyone who goes by one of those names is rude.)

I have been treating spelling variations as different words for ages now and I'm sticking to it. For example, in the big annual survey, the pronoun set xe/xir is treated as distinct from the pronoun set ze/zir. That's because I don't know the roots of the two sets, I don't know if they're pronounced the same in all accents, etc.

So I'm just applying that rule to names as well.

But hey, let's do a survey about it. :D

[ The post we're talking about ]

#meta #names #Wren #Ren #homophones

[wronghands1]

#wronghands #webcomic #humor #john atkinson #history #sixteenth century #witches #grammar #wordplay #phonics #homophones #spelling #witchcraft