UK rebuffed over Galileo sat-nav procurement

[sasguru]

Sas, I’m most grateful to your coining the mince analogy and providing the collective with regular illustrations of its best practice.

Now you're really digging. Why don't you answer WTFH's question?

[Old Greg]

As I said, Google won't help if your education is deficient. The problem you're struggling with is that a homonym is both a general term and a specific term. In Old Smeg's eagerness to correct an apparent mistake, he tripped over himself and revealed that he's ignorant of all but Google. Sound familiar?

I was using a technical definition and you were using a sloppy one. That is ok.

[jamesbrown]

I was using a technical definition and you were using a sloppy one. That is ok.

You were frantically searching without understanding. If you’d understood, you wouldn’t have made a point about correctness (there was indeed irony, only of a different origin than you’d hoped ), rather about precision, which would’ve made you look silly too, incidentally. But that’s fine, I forgive you.

[Old Greg]

You were frantically searching without understanding. If you’d understood, you wouldn’t have made a point about correctness (there was indeed irony, only of a different origin than you’d hoped ), rather about precision, which would’ve made you look silly too, incidentally. But that’s fine, I forgive you.

Why would I search frantically when I studied linguistics at university? I know exactly what the correct meanings are of homonym, homophone and homograph.

[Mordac]

So are you saying that "High" and "Hi" are homophones but are not homonyms, specifically and in general?

We're not in "general" so all the usual rules go out the window. HTH...

[WTFH]

We're not in "general" so all the usual rules go out the window. HTH...

Yes we are. Brexit is a Sub-forum of General.
If General is the bathroom of the forum, Brexit is the toilet pan.

[DimPrawn]

Yes we are. Brexit is a Sub-forum of General.
If General is the bathroom of the forum, Brexit is the toilet pan.

With a massive stinking turd in it.

[darmstadt]

With a massive stinking turd in it.

Glad you could drop in...

[Whorty]

With a massive stinking turd in it.

called Brexit

[sasguru]

You were frantically searching without understanding. If you’d understood, you wouldn’t have made a point about correctness (there was indeed irony, only of a different origin than you’d hoped ), rather about precision, which would’ve made you look silly too, incidentally. But that’s fine, I forgive you.

Oh dear! Last time you had this much egg on your face was when you predicted an 80-seat majority for Theresa May at the last election
And the quest to find an intelligent Brexiter continues .....