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User:Jlee884

2015-03-16T23:08:54Z

Jlee884: /* Homonymous names. */

This is a page created regarding the student '''Jasper Lee'''. What follows is a series of words written by said student.

== Twins of different character. ==

When one says or writes ''demean'', there are two things one could intend by it: one, to act so as to debase, and another, simply to act at all. The first stems from Middle English ''mene'', ancestor of the ''mean'' which we nowadays use to refer to a person of unfriendly and distasteful character. The second comes from Middle English ''menen'', from which we get the noun ''mean'' so often used in statistics, as well as the ''meaning'' of a given word. These two ''demean''s are, although both verbs and both spelled and pronounced the same, nonetheless different words - homonyms.

Other examples of homonyms include:

* might and might
* shake and shake
* "start the assignment now" and "don't start the assignment until the day before it's due"

It is, of course, often necessary to qualify the distinction between these.

== Homonymous names. ==

In English, "Lee" derives from an Anglo-Saxon word for ''meadow'', and was historically assigned to people who lived near one. However, it is also the Romanisation of several Chinese and Korean names, including my own. Examples of names of either origin may be found in the lists of student names on the [[COMPSCI111|COMPSCI 111 main page]].

User:Jlee884

2015-03-16T23:05:33Z

Jlee884: /* A Mostly Empty Userpage */

User:Jlee884

2015-03-16T23:04:27Z

Jlee884: Filling in for Lab 02.

= A Mostly Empty Userpage =

This is a page created regarding the student '''Jasper Lee'''.

== Twins of different character. ==

When one says or writes ''demean'', there are two things one could intend by it: one, to act so as to debase, and another, simply to act at all. The first stems from Middle English ''mene'', ancestor of the ''mean'' which we nowadays use to refer to a person of unfriendly and distasteful character. The second comes from Middle English ''menen'', from which we get the noun ''mean'' so often used in statistics, as well as the ''meaning'' of a given word. These two ''demean''s are, although both verbs and both spelled and pronounced the same, nonetheless different words - homonyms.

Other examples of homonyms include:

* might and might
* shake and shake
* "start the assignment now" and "don't start the assignment until the day before it's due"

It is, of course, often necessary to qualify the distinction between these.

== Homonymous names. ==

In English, "Lee" derives from an Anglo-Saxon word for ''meadow'', and was historically assigned to people who lived near one. However, it is also the Romanisation of several Chinese and Korean names, including my own. Examples of names of either origin may be found in the lists of student names on the [[COMPSCI111|COMPSCI 111 home page]].