word class of the day: homographic homophonic autantonyms

[radium]

Comments

[browascension]

I always pictured a Congressional Oversight Committee saying things like, "Gee, we didn't think of that." "Well, it looks obvious in retrospect, but at the time it was pretty confusing." "Hmm... yeah I guess we missed the boat on that one too."

[radium]

http://www.grandchallenge.org/darpauc07/watchtherace/
:: waves phantom foam finger ::

[debramcp]

awesome cartoon! i could just pat it on the head and ruffle its hair...

[studio208]

I'm a little too asleep to understand the full depth of the Autologryphs link... but anything starting with Dinosaur comics is good.

[catithat]

My relationship with the english language is forever changed.

[amoken]

We had one of those as a Knowledge Bowl question once. I don't remember the clue, but the answer was "cleave" and for some reason my team thought it was just amazing that I got that, and then afterwards we spent a long time discussing why words like that exist. Heh.