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To: escapefromboston

Homophones are a blight on society, and we should not encourage them. To do so, is to destroy the very foundations of our language, our culture, and ultimately, our souls.


54 posted on 12/22/2004 10:05:36 AM PST by Chad Fairbanks ("Just because you were born stupid doesn't give you any right to be stupid!" - Paul Watson to Makahs)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

If it wasn't for homophones we would be speaking German right now!


59 posted on 12/22/2004 10:07:50 AM PST by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: Chad Fairbanks
Why are you giving homonyms a pass?

Homophones are all talk, but homonyms mean it!

68 posted on 12/22/2004 10:11:58 AM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: Chad Fairbanks

I thought a homophone was queer phone sex.


77 posted on 12/22/2004 10:17:14 AM PST by NRA1995 ("Yew jes' go and lay yore hand on a Pittsburgh Steelers fan & Ah think yer gonna fin'lly understand")
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