The Beauty of a Language,,,

hi there everyone...!!!

don't you guys remember our previous class on Wednesday.,,when we went back to our "kindergarten" moment..well, actually we've learnt about the importance of a language, am I right??? I supposed all of you have your own opinion on what the language is mean for you... As for myself, language is the medium of an interaction that we use while communicating with other people and I believe it is also through language a relationship might took place... So,, what's language means to you???

Basically, we've learnt about what so called "homonym", "homophones", and "heteronym". For our own understanding, let's explore the definition of the three concepts first.First and foremost, the word "homonym" means one of a group of words that share the same spelling or pronunciation (or both) but have different meanings. In comparison to that, "homophones" is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The words may be spelled the same, such as rose (flower) and rose (past tense of "rise"), or differently, such as carat, caret, and carrot, or two and too. In linguistics, "heteronym" refer to as two words with identical spellings but different meanings and pronunciations.

Here are few examples of these three concepts in linguistics that I could find for our own understanding...

I. HOMOPHONES

1 a. Bold (adj): Confident and brave; without feeling of shame; can be clearly seen.

E.g.: a bold plan to rebuild the city centre.

b. Bold (n) : Very straight; quite upright.

E.g.: sitting bold upright.

2 a. Chest (adj): A game for two people played on a board marked with black and white squares.E.g.: James and Robert are playing chess.

b. Chest (n) : Upper front part of the body from the neck to the stomach.

3 a. Heal (n): To become or make something healthy again.

E.g.: the wound healed slowly.

b. Heel (n): Back part of human foot; to lead over to one side.

E.g.: she is wearing a high-heel pair of shoes.

4 a. Pole (n): Either of the two points at the opposite ends of the line on which the earth or any other planets turns.

E.g.: The North and the South pole.

b. Poll (v): The process of voting at an election.

E.g.: The result of the poll has been declared that females are more competitive than male.

5 a. Reign (v): To rule as a King and a Queen.

E.g.: his reign as a President has come to and end.

b. Rein (n) : A long, narrow, usually leather, band fastened around the neck of a horse.

E.g.: Don’t let go of the reins!.

II. HOMONYM

1 a. Abstract (adj): Existing in thoughts or as an idea but not having a physical or practical existence.

E.g.: We may talk a beautiful things, but the beauty itself is abstract.

b. Abstract (v) : To remove something, to separate something from something else.

E.g.: Two other points must be abstracted from the argument.

2 a. Account (n): A written statement of money paid or owed for goods and services

E.g.: Send in account to somebody else.

b. Account (v): To think of somebody or something as something to consider.

E.g.: A man is accounted innocent until he is proved guilty.

3 a. Acid (n) : Any of class of substances containing hydrogen that can be replaced by a metal to form a salt.

E.g.: Somebody has thrown away the acid to her face.

b. Acid (adj): Having a bitter sharp taste-sour.

E.g.: A lemon is an acid fruit.

4 a. Lark (n): A small brown bird with a pleasant song.

b. Lark (n) : A thing done for fun or for one’s amusement.

E.g: The boys didn’t mean any harm; they only did it for a lark.

5 a. March (n): The third month of the year.

E.g: Jessica and James are married this March 21.

b. March (v): To walk like a soldier with regular steps of equal length.

E.g.: The football players are marched to the stadium.

III. HETERONYM

1 a. Abuse (v): To make bad or excessive use of something.

E.g.: Abusing the children

b. Abuse (n) : Wrong or excessive use of something.

E.g.: Widespread abuse of computer facilities.

2 a. Buffet (n): A meal at which guests serve themselves from a number of dishes.

E.g.: Dinner will be a cold buffet, not a sit-down meal.

b. Buffet (v): To knock or push somebody or something roughly from side to side.

E.g.: Flowers buffeted by the rain and wind

3 a. Dove (n): A bird of pigeon family.

E.g.:the dove cooed softly.

b. Dove (n): Past Tense of Dive: an act of diving.

E.g.: The goalkeeper makes a spectacular dive to catch the ball.

4 a. Grave (n): A hole dug in the ground for a dead body.

E.g.: Visiting somebody’s grave.

b. Grave (n) : A mark (`) placed over a vowel to indicate how it is to be pronounced.

E.g.:A French language

5 a. Record (n): A permanent account, especially in a form of documents, facts, events.

E.g.: Citizens must record their marriage, birth and so on to the government authority

b. Record (v): To write down or put into a computer or onto film facts so that people can remembered it in the future.

E.g.: Their unforgettable moments are recorded and transferred into a CD.