Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

Kristian Jensen wrote:
> What's the difference?
Not much, I guess.  :-)  Homophony is words that happen to sound the
same, but are perceived as different words (like bat/bat), usually with
completely distinct meanings, and polysemy is when a perceptually single
word has multiple, related, meanings.

> That's the catch! The resemblance is what's funny. The same cannot be
> said for "bat". No resemblance, no funny. Get it? Aaaaaaaargh..... I
> give up! Its sooo frustrating when people don't have the same sense
> of humour as one does.
Hmm, I guess I can see what you thought was funny.  Different sense of
humor, I guess.  I just thought it was an interesting usage.

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