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[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 89 points 2 months ago

Forgive my ignorance, but what is that? A goat? What's the homonym?

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 192 points 2 months ago

"Like a kid in a candy store", kid = baby goat instead of human child.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

I should start saying “like a goat in a candy store”

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 2 months ago
[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. Their/there/they're are classic examples.

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

That's a homophone, a homonym is a word that is spelled and pronounced the same but has different meanings, like "tap" as in "faucet" and "tap" as in the action of tapping a surface.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Technically, it is a homonym. Homonyms are separated into two categories, homophones (sound the same but spelled differently, such as they're/their/there) and homographs, which are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as lead (the metal) and lead (the verb).

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago
[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

kid = baby goat

I was today years old (non-native).

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I thought it was store (shop) and store (storage) but yours makes more sense

[-] LammaLemma@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 months ago

Bull in a China shop - Idiom that describes a clumsy person. The second one is a a kid in a candy store where kid means baby goat as well as a child (human)

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago

In German, it's an elephant instead of a bull is someone is curious

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

We've learned enough about Germans in the last few days on Lemmy.

[-] musubibreakfast@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I don't wish to learn any more about Germany

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

In Dutch it's also an elephant in case you do want to learn more about Dutch :)

[-] bebabalula@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago

Same in Danish - but in a glass store

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Whatever works, I guess, actually in Dutch it is in a 'china-cabinet' (?) as in a closet/cupboard for fragile plates but i guess that word is so old it's not really something anyone actually anyone has like nobody has silverware for special occasions anymore.

[-] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It seems it is elephant in most languages. I was not even aware English idiom has a bull instead.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Huh, and I thought it was just us saying it with an elephant.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago
[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Oh, sorry : ). Hungary.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 14 points 2 months ago

“Kid” in candy store.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 months ago

Young goats are called "kids."

Kid in a candy shop.

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