User:Jlee884
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 demeans 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 COMPSCI 111 home page.
