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    pain as a result of how love has bruised him. This leaves us with the impression that he is deeply affected by love in a negative way‚ and that this hurt that love has given him will take a long time to heal. On the other hand‚ Shakespeare uses a homonym to contrast Mercutio’s idea of love with Romeo’s. We see this when Mercutio says ’borrow cupid’s wings and soar with them.’ The use of ’soar’ and ’sore’ illustrates their contradicting thoughts on love. Romeo talks about himself as being ’sore’ in

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    them into text on the computer. These applications have a much wider vocabulary than the dialogue interface. This is the most technically challenging form of interface for the designers as it has to cope with different accents‚ dialects‚ slang‚ homonyms etc. [pic] Form Fill Interface The form normally provides limited choices as to the use. For example‚ a form interface for an setting text characteristics in application software might offer the choices of selecting font size‚ color‚ style

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    Chemistry puns With a wild imagination and a flair for puns‚ you will be able to use the names of many of the elements to take the place of other words or phrases. Some are very straightforward‚ but many of homonyms require a stretch of the imagination. Be creative and have pun! 1. Police officer. 2. Lone Ranger’s horse. 3. If they are not here‚ they ___________. 4. To press a blouse. 5. Motto for an oil well?drilling company. 6. What should you do with dead people’s bodies? 7. A fixture in

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    Dashes Quiz (90%) 1. Hinduism--this is the major religion of India--developed over a period of many centuries. (B) 2. Ferrets can be delightful pets--when they want to be. (B) 3. “You have two choices‚” he was told to fight and die or to live the life of a coward. (C) 4. Mayonnaise contains three things--egg yolks‚ vegetable oil‚ and vinegar. (A) 5. There were only two men who could match his strength and skill--Hercules and Achilles. (A) 6. Don’t forget these ingredients

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    Ambiguity in Translation

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    IN THE NAME OF THE MOST COMPASSIONATE YAZD AZAD UNIVERSITY(SCINCES AND RESEARCHES BRANCH) THE PROJECT OF ambiguity in translation PROFESSOR : DR jabbari STUDENT: SAEID JEDI In the name of the most compassionate Abstract This paper deals with translation ambiguity and target polysemy problems together. many Words have more than one translation across languages. Such translation ambiguous words are generally translated more slowly and less Accurately than their unambiguous counterparts

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    The Tain: Cuculain Hero?

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    a story figure that embarks on a journey in order to complete tasks that make them into legends of tales. Cuchulainn is a mythic hero in the Tain‚ a story of a war between the North and South of the land in Ireland. A hero is a term that can be a homonym with many other meanings. A person can consider a police officer‚ their mother‚ or many other examples as a hero. Even with the broad spectrum of the word‚ every example does surround the feeling of being protected by the person. I consider Cuchulainn

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    Visit us at http://www.sunrom.com Document: Datasheet Date: 6-Aug-12 Model #: 1180 Product’s Page: www.sunrom.com/p-762.html Speech Recognition System based on HM2007 The speech recognition system is a completely assembled and easy to use programmable speech recognition circuit. Programmable‚ in the sense that you train the words (or vocal utterances) you want the circuit to recognize. This board allows you to experiment with many facets of speech recognition technology. It has 8

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    202353484 Lexicology

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    BIBLIOGRAPHY                  Barber‚ C. 2000. The English Language. A Historical Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Baugh‚ A. and T. Cable. 2002. A History of the English Language‚ 5th edition. London: Routledge. Bejan‚ N. and Elena Asandei. 1981. Contemporary English Language: Syntax and Lexicology. Galaţi: Editura Universităţii din Galaţi. Brook‚ G. L. 1981. Words in Everyday Life. London: The Macmillan Press. Cannon‚ G. 1987. Historical Change and English

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    and over and while they will sound completely correct to my ear‚ they are far from correct to my readers‚ (instructors). Not only can I not place my punctuations correctly‚ I also have a huge issue with grammar I have a bad habit of using the wrong homonym‚ or homophones. I know the difference between them‚ but I seem to use them incorrectly still and don’t catch these mistakes when I proof read. Whereas for all the other parts of the writing process‚ such as brainstorming to discover a good topic and

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    lemonade please. Obviously‚ the word “glass” in a) refers to the first meaning (a transparent material) and that in b) refers to the drinking vessel. Linguists regarded the phenomenon that a same word or name is used to denote different things as homonyms (Oxford English Dictionary‚ 1989). One has to consider a sentence or even a paragraph as a whole to determine the exact meaning of a particular word. Prototype is one factor making Jackendoff’s statement true. It can be cltural perspective or personal

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