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Default Re: syntax

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Originally Posted by taylorkl View Post
I know the word Bass can mean, bass like a fish or bass like a bass guitar... would that be how it is interesting?
Yes. If two words are spelled the same but have different meaning they are homonyms. Do you know what kind of homonyms they are?

It would be easy for a listener to pick out the difference between spoken bass (fish) and bass (guitar) because those words are pronounced differently, but it wouldn't be as easy for a reader, because the difference between those two words is in their phonetics.

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