{"id":28,"date":"2012-06-06T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/?p=28"},"modified":"2012-06-06T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T20:40:34","slug":"homophones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/2012\/06\/06\/homophones\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophones"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned English as a child and although there aren\u2019t many parallels between the language of Shakespeare and Portuguese, they both have homophones, and what tricky little things they are. From beach<\/em> and its mean variation, to two<\/em> or too <\/em>or to, <\/em>all of them are traps waiting to catch me. If for a distracted native speaker homophones can present some challenges, for a Brazilian they\u2019re down right daunting. I mean, how big is a feat if it\u2019s only a couple of feet? I could go on all day.<\/p>\n

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Writing in a second language can be challenging, but never boring.<\/p><\/div>\n

Even worst for me though are words that aren\u2019t even homophones, but their spells are different for only one letter. I\u2019m the master of writing though<\/em> instead of thought<\/em>, and the word processor won\u2019t help me with that. If I misspell and there aren\u2019t any words just like my mistake, I\u2019ll be fine, Word will get it for me, it won\u2019t only tell me, \u201cYou\u2019re wrong,\u201d with its red underlining, but it will teach me the right spelling. Usually however I simply write something else, a word that exists, but with a meaning far from my intentions, like slime instead of slim.<\/p>\n

My boasting older daughter, who is in eighth grade HONORS ENGLISH, loves to edit my work; every little misspelling is a comic relief for her. She stares at me and says, \u201cMom I love your writing, it\u2019s so funny,\u201d and most times she isn\u2019t talking about the content, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

Well, I didn\u2019t submit this post to her candid scrutiny. I decided instead to exercise my right to make mistakes, so dear reader if you see something off, please let me know, I believe you are much nicer than my teenage daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learned English as a child and although there aren\u2019t many parallels between the language of Shakespeare and Portuguese, they both have homophones, and what tricky little things they are. From beach and its mean variation, to two or too or to, all of them are traps waiting to catch me. If for a distracted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammaticallychallenged","tag-homophones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adrigomes.com\/literaryexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}