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Get Good at Grammar: Homonyms, and the Weird Shit They Do
I’m not a word doctor, but I am really good at words and want to help you help your words. Just think of me as an unlicensed linguisticologist. Set up an appointment with my receptionist and learn how to do grammar more better.
In this installment, we take a look at homonyms, how to spot them in the wild, and how to adopt them and make them your own.
Just kidding.
I basically just teach you what homonyms are and give you some reasons to want to murder the English language.
What the crap are homonyms?
Technically, homonyms are words that are spelled the same and sound the same but mean different things.
However, this is a boring definition, and I have talked to Webster about replacing theirs with the really cool definition I shat out below:
Homonyms are words that copied their letters and pronunciations from other words, but decided to just mean other things for some stupid reason, the rotten bastards.
In my arrogant opinion, homonyms only exist to unnecessarily confuse people, but it’s still important to understand what they are before I foment a literary revolution.
