home.social

#homonym — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #homonym, aggregated by home.social.

fetched live
  1. @lingucat Ach ja, die Straße ist immer voll mit den Anhängern. Da fahr' ich jeden Tag mit dem Rad dran vorbei. Manchmal stehen die auch in der Fußgängerzone und versuchen, zu bekehren.

    Da fällt mir auf, 'Anhänger' ist hier auch ein echt passendes #Homonym – schöne #Kolligation! :)

    #Sprache #Linguistik

  2. Trumps tarrifs:

    They make so little sense that you don’t even get a dollar.

    #homonym #puns #DadJokes

  3. @stevenfeldman it’s a Lidl subbrand for locally sourced Greek products, it means “thought/meaning: local & quality”, not “a devastating gangrene that starts in the mouth and quickly spreads to disfigure the face, destroying both soft and bony tissue” #homonym

  4. @stevenfeldman it’s a Lidl subbrand for locally sourced Greek products, it means “thought/meaning: local & quality”, not “a devastating gangrene that starts in the mouth and quickly spreads to disfigure the face, destroying both soft and bony tissue” #homonym

  5. In 2018, Fernandez-Triana et al. described various #wasps in the family #Braconidae, including a genus #Qrocodiledundee and the species Qrocodiledundee outbackense.

    I find this comment under #etymology really odd:

    'Named after the iconic Australian movie “Crocodile Dundee” ... The first letter of the name is changed to a “Q” to guarantee the uniqueness of the name and avoid potential homonyms.'

    doi.org/10.3897/jhr.64.25453

    How likely was a Crocodiledundee #homonym?

    #entomology #taxonomy

  6. In 2018, Fernandez-Triana et al. described various #wasps in the family #Braconidae, including a genus #Qrocodiledundee and the species Qrocodiledundee outbackense.

    I find this comment under #etymology really odd:

    'Named after the iconic Australian movie “Crocodile Dundee” ... The first letter of the name is changed to a “Q” to guarantee the uniqueness of the name and avoid potential homonyms.'

    doi.org/10.3897/jhr.64.25453

    How likely was a Crocodiledundee #homonym?

    #entomology #taxonomy