Re: Tail and Tale are not Synonyms but Homophones

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It's a pun, Honey! Have some humor. Is your "n" key broken too, PH?
referece?? Or reference?? And usally meaning usually?? Don't end
with a preposition..to.

On 11/19/10, makes no sense wrote:
> sorry my "u" key keeps getting stuck, in my last sentence it
> should state "Are you using, not Are you sing
>
> On 11/19/10, This makes no sense wrote:
>> I am very sorry to hear that you were written up today, however,
>> your writing makes no sense whatsoever.
>> Whatever you are alluding to is lost in your writing. I have a
>> PhD in Lang and Lit and usally can make sense of what most
>> people are refering to. It really "seems" that you are using
>> homophones in place of an incorrectly used synonym (meaning a
>> synonym would still not make sense in your writing)Are you sing
>> the term tattle tail in place of a referece to the "tail end" of
>> something?
>>
>> On 11/19/10, Anon wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tail and tale are not synonyms but homophones. Since we are
>>>> teachers, we should really know that!
>>>
>>> Then get my point. I know that tail and tale are homphones.
>>> I wasn't using my message that way. I said this teacher is a
>>> tattle tail....meaning a synonym for tail. She is a
>>> tattle__synonym for tail. Got it????
 

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