Does anyone talk this?

Over the weekend Aya was playing with JT. Aya was throwing JT up in the air and saying, "Takai".

Using my bilingual abilities and my inquisitive nature I said, "Expensive? Why is JT expensive?"

Aya then said "takai" means something other than expensive, you know like a homonym.

Uh-huh. A homo-what? What the heck is a homonym?

Definition: Homonym - two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

Of course, when you see the definition, you think, "Oh yeah, I knew that." Sure.

Naturally, Miss Smarty pants tells me I should go on the television show Are you Smarter than a 5th Grader…because I am so not! Aya then asks, "You do know what a "synonym" is, right?"

I coolly answer, "Of course I know that…I put Synonym (cinnamon) on my toast!"

Definition: Synonyms are different words with similar or identical meanings and are interchangeable.

More examples of English synonyms are:

baby and infant (noun)
student and pupil (noun)
pretty and attractive (adjective)

Aya then asks, "Didn't you learn that in school?"

Hmm, I am pretty sure I learned it in school at some point. I told her, I probably learned it for that week's quiz and then jettisoned it from my memory bank. I mean who goes around talking that way...do you know a homonym and a synonym?

I think in my next staff meeting, I am going to say, "Hmm, nice status update, but do you think you can change the first portion and use different synonyms?" Ha! I bet people won't know what I am talking about. It is much easier to say, "Look you retard, use a different word to make this status update sexier."