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  1. #nonce is two separate nouns:

    Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
    (Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

    Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
    (Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur

    More: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

    #homonyms #incel #masculinism #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #teenagers #prison #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #etymology #slang #linguistics #English #Adolescence #Netflix #crime #criminality

  2. #nonce is two separate nouns:

    Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
    (Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

    Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
    (Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur

    More: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

    #homonyms #incel #masculinism #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #teenagers #prison #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #etymology #slang #linguistics #English #Adolescence #Netflix #crime #criminality

  3. #nonce is two separate nouns:

    Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
    (Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

    Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
    (Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur

    More: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

    #homonyms #incel #masculinism #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #teenagers #prison #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #etymology #slang #linguistics #English #Adolescence #Netflix #crime #criminality

  4. #nonce is two separate nouns:

    Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
    (Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

    Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
    (Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur

    More: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

    #homonyms #incel #masculinism #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #teenagers #prison #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #etymology #slang #linguistics #English #Adolescence #Netflix #crime #criminality

  5. is two separate nouns:

    Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
    (Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

    Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
    (Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent:

    More: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

  6. @popey So you either charged your battery for free, or got charged for not getting your battery charged, or somewhere in-between?!?

    #synonyms #homonyms

  7. While I was reactivating my old slides on semantics (Semantics & Pragmatics), I thought: #JohnLyons is better than #SKOS and #OWL. These are basic terms from the Sixties, foundation of linguistics, every student of linguistics knows them after the 3rd term - introduction to linguistics or semantics.

    E.g. Jaguar (animal) and Jaguar (car) are #homonyms and not one polysemous lexeme.
    The notions of #homonymy and #polysemy are fuzzy, in #QuantitativeLinguistics the term #polylexy is used.