English SPECIFICALLY has too TOO many HOMOPHONES!
FAR MORE THAN OTHER LINGOS!
DO YOU AGREE?
1) PROFIT PROPHET (Greek)
2) DUAL (Latin) JEWEL
3) TOO TO TWO ( 3 there - I like doing things in three ;)
One solution is - extra terms/terminology -
WHICH ENGLISH IS ALRDEADY UNIQUELY RICH IN!!!!!
SUGGESTIONS for the above :
Profit Foreteller
Twofold Jewel
Also Duo AD :) (3 Different Altogether!)
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The allegation of the NO CHANGE Brigade is such things are CLEAR BY CONTEXT - indeed this is true as the same thing happens in many other languages of course.
HOYEVER - as they say in Northern Ireland - the combination of this phenomenon with the fenomenon of illogical and INCONSISTENT spelling (often due to the origins in older languages like Ancient Greek) calls - I think - for MORE flexibility NOT less.
To console English Speakers - in France and elsewhere there are PRESCRIPTIVE Academies of languages........
In the English-speaking world The NOW VAST O.E.D. is and always was DESCRIPTIVE.
Languages evolve anyway.
Italian for example was literally once Latin.......
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And so it goes on
like the great MISISIPI - sorry Winston!....
