Add your homonyms, but no ad hominems

12 Mar 2017

Quote by Stormdog
Hmm, you're right (not write), but there is no such thing as an "ad homiphone", so the thread title wouldn't have worked.

Isn't that when you do not debate one's argument's but attack them for who their name sounds similar to? Like when in a discussion with Ayaan Hirschi Ali you make the claim that people with boxing-related brain injuries should stay out of politics.

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12 Mar 2017

Quote by noll

Isn't that when you do not debate one's argument's but attack them for who their name sounds similar to? Like when in a discussion with Ayaan Hirschi Ali you make the claim that people with boxing-related brain injuries should stay out of politics.

I don't know if it was, but it is now. Maybe it will become known as a Nollism, since you ferreted out the meaning.

And I should have included write, right, and rite - and even wright, as in shipwright, in the original post of this.

Another I sometimes see in stories is confusion of "past" and "passed". It's a bit of a tricky one, I think. Past is usually an adjective, "past experience". But is it a noun when referring to "the past"?

Passed, on the other hand, is a verb, as in "passed the ball downfield" or "the car passed us by"

Once the tornado was finally past, I nearly passed out. Or: In thinking about the past, I passed over the recent years and went way back.

12 Mar 2017

Quote by chesh78
Weight and wait, perhaps? Too, to and two confuses some people, as does off and of.

You'd be amazed how often I see "of" when the writer meant "off" , which, while not a homophone, is a frequent confusion. I'd attribute it to a lazy typing finger and a missed "f", but sometimes it's consistent throughout the story. My fingers, on the other hand (no pun intended...) often type "too" when I know damn well it's "to" that's needed. They just get flying so fast that it's all a blur. (Not!)

13 Mar 2017

Quote by Stormdog

You'd be amazed how often I see "of" when the writer meant "off" , which, while not a homophone, is a frequent confusion. I'd attribute it to a lazy typing finger and a missed "f", but sometimes it's consistent throughout the story. My fingers, on the other hand (no pun intended...) often type "too" when I know damn well it's "to" that's needed. They just get flying so fast that it's all a blur. (Not!)

I do similarly with an / and - often adding the D by mistake. Or when changing a sentence around and forgetting to correct a /an dependent on exchanged words.