Message from @Undead Mockingbird

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2018-11-06 05:22:48 UTC  

i learned english by watching serieses.
just try to understand it with out reading subtitles.

2018-11-06 05:23:06 UTC  

Our English teacher was bad.

2018-11-06 05:23:11 UTC  

He wasn't a native speaker, either.

2018-11-06 05:23:21 UTC  

I learned English by reading classical literature.

2018-11-06 05:23:22 UTC  

That's a strange question. Hmm. I'm at a pretty low level - so it's hard to relate that

2018-11-06 05:23:53 UTC  

I will post weeb shit here then from time to time and see if people can help me out.

2018-11-06 05:24:28 UTC  

I think I found a homophone that is an antonym.

2018-11-06 05:24:37 UTC  

成年

2018-11-06 05:24:44 UTC  

There's also a video series with a guy named Yuti Aoki which doesn't seem terrible

2018-11-06 05:24:46 UTC  

and 青年

2018-11-06 05:25:03 UTC  

ONe is adult the other youth, but both are pronounced seinen.

2018-11-06 05:25:25 UTC  

strange

2018-11-06 05:25:28 UTC  

That's crazy. Two words that are pronounced the same but basically opposites.

2018-11-06 05:25:59 UTC  

It might be uncommon

2018-11-06 05:26:08 UTC  

I mean, it's all contextual, but people might use

2018-11-06 05:26:09 UTC  

青少年

2018-11-06 05:26:21 UTC  

seishonen?

2018-11-06 05:26:24 UTC  

didn't know that existed

2018-11-06 05:26:34 UTC  

聖書ねn

2018-11-06 05:27:02 UTC  

青少年

2018-11-06 05:27:29 UTC  

oh wait yes that is a thing

2018-11-06 05:27:33 UTC  

Are we able to use two words that sound alike in the same sentence to confuse reader in finding they were flip-flopped from their original meanings.

2018-11-06 05:28:02 UTC  

Similar to read and read?

2018-11-06 05:28:06 UTC  

Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo

2018-11-06 05:28:08 UTC  

no, context probably clears that up

2018-11-06 05:28:13 UTC  

but it's still pretty rare

2018-11-06 05:28:18 UTC  

I can't think of an english example

2018-11-06 05:28:23 UTC  

wait, there is cleave and cleave

2018-11-06 05:28:26 UTC  

Yeah, there aren't that many

2018-11-06 05:28:40 UTC  

cleave can mean to split and to fuse/join

2018-11-06 05:28:41 UTC  

no?

2018-11-06 05:28:44 UTC  

Maybe we might read one word, but the original was meant to be read a differently.

2018-11-06 05:29:05 UTC  

I mean, there's some antonyms that are similar

2018-11-06 05:29:19 UTC  

but I can't think of any that are really the same

2018-11-06 05:29:56 UTC  

I've never heard cleave used to mean joining.

2018-11-06 05:30:02 UTC  

Neither have I

2018-11-06 05:30:06 UTC  

Only to split apart.

2018-11-06 05:30:25 UTC  

but apparently it is there

2018-11-06 05:30:56 UTC  

well, for english does it have to by a homophone or a homonym?

2018-11-06 05:31:00 UTC  

cause one woudl be easy