Homophone and homonym are synonymous with slightly more meaning for homonym (a homonym can be a homograph or a homophone). So in this case, you are both right.
My Grammar used to have the best ribbon candy in a dish at her house. When you picked up a piece, the whole batch came up with it because it had sat there so long it was sugar-welded together. She would press a shiny quarter in my hand for my birthday and assume that I would be elated at such a generous gift. I was not.
Whenever I’m looking for something, I always try to take into account spelling mistakes… and more often than not, what I want is in those secondary searches. :sigh:
It’s like Napster back in the day. If you spelled the artist or title correctly, you got no hits. But if you grossly misspelled something, you got hundreds in the search.
Spelling mistakes and typos are so rampant on ebay that some enterprising person started fatfingers.com – it helps you search for items, taking into account said mistakes. There should be something similar for etsy, it seems. Maybe spelling4cupcakes.com.
I would say that if you’re going to intentionally misspell a word to take advantage, it should be in your tags, not your title. This is just stupidity or ignorance, neither of which are acceptable excuses.
Using misspellings in search (and search phrases) is one of the recommended strategies on eBay. If nothing else, it’s often a good way to find the things without much bidding competition.
I’ve always wanted to believe that the majority of cupcake land live in both states to excuse their atrocities. However, I realized that if THAT were the case they might actually have produced some quality creative work, or at least had a decent sense of humor about it when they put out shit and get called on it.
A few weeks ago I listed a top on ebay as ‘sequin trimmed’. Someone actually asked me if I meant ‘sequensed’. There is only one response to that but it’s frowned upon by the police, so I just left it and had more vodka.
I’m much more forgiving about pronunciation than spelling. You get weird regionalisms (for instance, there’s a town here in Texas called Manchaca, pronounced “Manshack”) and habits from those around you, and holdovers from before you were old enough to have encountered the word in print, and so on. But when it’s time to write it down, there’s right and then there’s stupid.
Uh, yeah – most “fat” people can’t wear high waisted shit (we wear that shit BELOW the belly, thanks). Honestly, NO ONE should wear high waisted shit….it’s the WORST silhouette….
That’s why God made Google Translate. For that, and to provide us with entertainment, when someone uses it and doesn’t realize it’s impossible to translate a language into another, word for word.
But for the ones where English is their first language, I have to ask: Did they drop out of school in fourth grade to shovel coal full time in the mines? I knew the difference between “waist” and “waste” before I was ten years old.
No, dude. I don’t know what they’re teaching in schools, but kids today are texting, facebooking, and what-have-you with each other. They figure if they can sort out what they’re saying, then correct spelling is useless.
The internet has taught me that either some people can’t learn to recognize the design of a word no matter how many times they read it, or some people just don’t read enough to recognize words at all. And yet there they all are, on the internet. Typing words. Making other people stupider.
I’m known as the Harpy Grammarian and proud of it. I proofread everything that leaves my company to be disseminated to the public, and it amazes me how the Marketing Coordinator (who is about 25) is both amused at my insistence on accuracy and dumbfounded that such little things make a difference. The most pervasive error I see of late (and I’m talking major publications) is using “lead” instead of “led.” Do these people’s lips move when they read? Ugh.
Oh, I’m SO glad I’m not the only one who gets stabby at that one.
A marketing coordinator working with major publications who is amused by your insistence on accuracy? The hell? I mean, those “little things” that you find so important are only the difference between being taken seriously and having your ideas discarded as ridiculous. MAKE SENSE and PROOFREAD. Assuming you want people to read what you write, of course.
You are a much bigger person than I am to put up with that. I just want to pat her on the head. HARD.
Well I’m here now so you can make that 206 stupid people on Etsy. Uhmmm, but I’m actually on Regretsy, not Etsy. Does that make me the exception that proves the rule?
Either way, that’s a real metric butt-load of stupid.
When etsy isn’t shitting out butterflies and laughter covered with ooey-gooey happyflakes it creates something that makes me laugh and appreciate my life as a hardcore porn addicted guttersnipe a little more. It completes me.
just as interesting is the fact that none of this stuff appears to be handmade & most of it would be considered vintage only by people who neither know nor care about vintage, meaning: at best it’s completely generic & often stonewashed garbage from the 1980s/1990s. that etsy has, in its infinite wisdom, chosen not to pull as not vintage, of course, although for what reason i cannot imagine. it’s not like it’s gonna sell.
All you need to do is add trashed on there and you have a perfect definition of Etsy.
TBH though I didn’t see what was wrong at first, I was like “well shit I mean it does let you list the materials you used to make it.” Then I had a lightbulb moment.
June 17, 2012 at 1:32 pm
In their defense, “high” and “wasted” do go together.
June 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
There’s gonna be a lot of high and wasted jokes and I was just about to crack one. Never assume stupidity when intoxication can be a factor.
June 17, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Yeah I think everyone was thinking the same thing there.
June 17, 2012 at 1:38 pm
such as “I’d have to be high and/or wasted to wear just about any of these.”
June 17, 2012 at 2:51 pm
This makes me glad I’m wasted. I don’t care about much of anything anyway. Let them be stupid.
June 17, 2012 at 3:34 pm
Twinkies. Admit it.. you care about Twinkies. And maybe nachos. Ooo! And chocolate chip cookie dough!
June 18, 2012 at 7:23 am
Don’t forget Oreoooooosss! Lots and lots of Oreos!
June 17, 2012 at 7:15 pm
*Attempts a wasted fist bump*
*Horribly misses*
June 17, 2012 at 9:37 pm
PSHAW, *attempts high wasted five*
*punches self in ass*
June 17, 2012 at 10:51 pm
The high waste will usually hide a crack
June 17, 2012 at 1:53 pm
Yeah. This really makes me want to be both. Right now.
June 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
I once spent an entire summer high wasted.
June 17, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I’m going on year 4 myself Treen, yet oddly enough I still manage to keep my homonyms straight.
June 17, 2012 at 3:35 pm
If my understanding from veggie tales is correct (because I learn everything from christian cartoons) It is a homophone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0J-T2lr0Ms
June 17, 2012 at 3:50 pm
YOU’RE a homo phone.
June 17, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Damn! You have revealed my secret identity
June 17, 2012 at 9:38 pm
“excuse me, but the homo phone is ringing, it must be an emergency!”
*batman sound effects*
June 17, 2012 at 10:28 pm
E.T., phone homo!
June 17, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Homophone and homonym are synonymous with slightly more meaning for homonym (a homonym can be a homograph or a homophone). So in this case, you are both right.
June 17, 2012 at 8:29 pm
Wright.
June 17, 2012 at 8:33 pm
I’ve only seen the first 30 or so but apparently high wasted is also a synonym for butt ugly.
June 17, 2012 at 9:47 pm
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June 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Maybe its referring to the state they were in when they put the ad up.
High AND Wasted…
June 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Their target market is Woody Harrelson.
June 17, 2012 at 3:03 pm
And his poker pal Willie Nelson.
I can def see Willie in a pair of daisy dukes.
June 17, 2012 at 8:03 pm
So can I, now. And I can’t unsee it. D-8
June 17, 2012 at 9:39 pm
THAT GUY IN THE MIDDLE ISN’T WILLIE NELSON
June 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
That’s a really low riding estimate….
June 17, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Grammar, it’s the difference between knowing your shit…. and knowing you’re shit.
June 17, 2012 at 1:39 pm
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June 17, 2012 at 1:46 pm
or knowing their shit and knowing “There, shit!”
June 17, 2012 at 10:30 pm
And “They’re shit.”
June 17, 2012 at 10:55 pm
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June 17, 2012 at 3:22 pm
That’s really great, SonOfSmockHocker. I like that.
June 17, 2012 at 5:51 pm
My Grammar used to have the best ribbon candy in a dish at her house. When you picked up a piece, the whole batch came up with it because it had sat there so long it was sugar-welded together. She would press a shiny quarter in my hand for my birthday and assume that I would be elated at such a generous gift. I was not.
June 17, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Sometimes I wonder how many tags are intentionally misspelled to take advantage of common spelling errors.
‘Cuz it seems to me that there’s an awful lot of money to be made on stupid.
June 17, 2012 at 1:46 pm
Whenever I’m looking for something, I always try to take into account spelling mistakes… and more often than not, what I want is in those secondary searches. :sigh:
June 17, 2012 at 1:58 pm
It’s like Napster back in the day. If you spelled the artist or title correctly, you got no hits. But if you grossly misspelled something, you got hundreds in the search.
June 17, 2012 at 7:21 pm
Ah, Napster. Who knew Queen sang “Dream On” or that “Band On the Run” was the Beatles? I learned so much that I had to try to forget later on.
June 18, 2012 at 1:05 am
And every single parody song ever written was by Weird Al…
June 18, 2012 at 10:04 am
Spelling mistakes and typos are so rampant on ebay that some enterprising person started fatfingers.com – it helps you search for items, taking into account said mistakes. There should be something similar for etsy, it seems. Maybe spelling4cupcakes.com.
June 17, 2012 at 1:59 pm
When I’m looking for cobalt glass, I always find a lot labeled colbalt. And sherbets labeled sherberts.
June 17, 2012 at 2:05 pm
I would say that if you’re going to intentionally misspell a word to take advantage, it should be in your tags, not your title. This is just stupidity or ignorance, neither of which are acceptable excuses.
June 17, 2012 at 2:58 pm
“there’s an awful lot of money to be made on stupid”
Wait, isn’t that the basis for Etsy’s business model?
June 17, 2012 at 3:38 pm
It is at least the basis for making another Madea movie.
June 17, 2012 at 7:22 pm
And for Adam Sandlers entire career.
June 17, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Using misspellings in search (and search phrases) is one of the recommended strategies on eBay. If nothing else, it’s often a good way to find the things without much bidding competition.
June 17, 2012 at 5:04 pm
yep! common typos, mispellings. you can def find really good deals both on etsy, ebay, any of the selling sites.
June 17, 2012 at 10:56 pm
Paulie D is that you?!
June 18, 2012 at 4:30 am
You’d be surprised at how many people on Etsy seem to think that selling a necklace to neckless people is a good idea.
http://www.etsy.com/search/handmade/jewelry?q=neckless&view_type=gallery
I was generous and only included the ones in the handmade jewelry section. 383 at last count.
Try making your money on smart and you end up with an empty bank account.
June 18, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Aagh. I REALLY shouldn’t have looked:
hip hop neckless, croicet on…
THE Gothic croche neckless
Beatiful CZ Pendent with Gold
Crotched neckless with pearls
I think I HAVE TO HAVE the crotched neckless. Who doesn’t want a crotched neckless?
June 18, 2012 at 7:17 am
“there’s an awful lot of money to be made on stupid” … I smell a sampler!
June 18, 2012 at 7:20 am
There have been lots of dimond and diament rings for sale on eBay over the years.
June 18, 2012 at 4:19 pm
Yeah, Craigslist pets section offers a lot of purebread dogs–you know, doverman pinchers, doxins, Golden receivers and shitzus.
June 17, 2012 at 1:37 pm
I might only wear some of these ugly clothes if I were actually high and wasted.
June 17, 2012 at 1:38 pm
I’ve always wanted to believe that the majority of cupcake land live in both states to excuse their atrocities. However, I realized that if THAT were the case they might actually have produced some quality creative work, or at least had a decent sense of humor about it when they put out shit and get called on it.
June 17, 2012 at 1:38 pm
the munchies from being “high wasted” can make you “big waisted”
June 17, 2012 at 1:38 pm
Do they have any chocolate wasted items?
June 17, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Mmmm, “high octane” brownies… om nom nom noooh shit
June 17, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Lots of people don’t know what a waist is.
June 17, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Finding a waist in the wild is quite difficult…
June 18, 2012 at 7:20 am
I used to have a waist. Then, childbirth. And bacon. And alcohol.
June 17, 2012 at 1:42 pm
205 people who need to be slapped stupid with a dictionary!
Wait…
June 17, 2012 at 1:49 pm
Want to see more stupidity? Look for sequins on etsy – but type in ‘sequence’ instead….
June 17, 2012 at 1:56 pm
Oh dear fuck. Really?
But the first item is Human Centipede related.
June 17, 2012 at 2:01 pm
And juxtaposition with things like a fibonacci sequence necklace make the stupidity burn even more…
June 17, 2012 at 2:20 pm
1,186! A few are actually using the word correctly. The rest are describing items with sequins on them. *headdesk*
June 17, 2012 at 9:21 pm
A few weeks ago I listed a top on ebay as ‘sequin trimmed’. Someone actually asked me if I meant ‘sequensed’. There is only one response to that but it’s frowned upon by the police, so I just left it and had more vodka.
June 18, 2012 at 8:00 am
My husband, even as educated as he is, pronounces it “sequence”!
Unfortunately I didn’t find this out about him until I started buying sequins to make things.
DRIVES ME BUG-NUTS!
June 18, 2012 at 9:11 am
My husband picked up a few words in his mother’s East Tennessee accent and says ‘malk’ for ‘milk’ and ‘palla’ for ‘pillow’. SO IRRITATING.
June 18, 2012 at 10:15 am
I’m much more forgiving about pronunciation than spelling. You get weird regionalisms (for instance, there’s a town here in Texas called Manchaca, pronounced “Manshack”) and habits from those around you, and holdovers from before you were old enough to have encountered the word in print, and so on. But when it’s time to write it down, there’s right and then there’s stupid.
June 18, 2012 at 9:16 am
to think, had I typed “sequins” I would have missed out on gems like this
June 17, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Such a waste.
June 17, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Waist?
June 17, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Multiply that 205 by the number of people who found that stuff by searching for ‘high wasted’ and you’re looking at a LOT of stupid.
June 17, 2012 at 1:58 pm
216 right now!!! I especially love the one with the “High wasted shorts” with “elastic waistline”. Wasit?
June 17, 2012 at 8:41 pm
Back down to 205 right now. I told those eleven to stay away from electrical outlets, but nooooo.
June 17, 2012 at 2:03 pm
*face-palm*
June 18, 2012 at 8:03 am
Or, keeping in the spirit, should that be ‘fayc-plam’?
June 17, 2012 at 2:28 pm
I can’t believe I actually went and checked to make sure none were mine.
June 17, 2012 at 3:04 pm
Haha, I know one of the sellers who listed her items high wasted.
June 17, 2012 at 2:33 pm
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June 17, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Naw man. High Waisted is a fancy way of saying Mom Jeans.
June 17, 2012 at 6:56 pm
It’s a fancy way to say “Mitt Romney”
June 19, 2012 at 8:49 am
Uh, yeah – most “fat” people can’t wear high waisted shit (we wear that shit BELOW the belly, thanks). Honestly, NO ONE should wear high waisted shit….it’s the WORST silhouette….
June 17, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Cut them a break – most resellers are in Asia, and have not mastered the English language.
June 17, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Cuting their brakes could have averse affections.
June 17, 2012 at 2:59 pm
That’s why God made Google Translate. For that, and to provide us with entertainment, when someone uses it and doesn’t realize it’s impossible to translate a language into another, word for word.
But for the ones where English is their first language, I have to ask: Did they drop out of school in fourth grade to shovel coal full time in the mines? I knew the difference between “waist” and “waste” before I was ten years old.
June 17, 2012 at 6:54 pm
No, dude. I don’t know what they’re teaching in schools, but kids today are texting, facebooking, and what-have-you with each other. They figure if they can sort out what they’re saying, then correct spelling is useless.
June 17, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I have lost all faith in humanity. Time to become a hermit.
June 18, 2012 at 8:05 am
The internet has taught me that either some people can’t learn to recognize the design of a word no matter how many times they read it, or some people just don’t read enough to recognize words at all. And yet there they all are, on the internet. Typing words. Making other people stupider.
June 17, 2012 at 3:13 pm
I was going to say…I’d have to be both high and wasted to make a spelling/grammar mistake like that. (I’m anal retentive like that.)
I was actually just trying to find a way to introduce anal aspects into the conversation. Since it’s close to the waste. Waist. Whatever.
June 17, 2012 at 3:25 pm
I love the fact that there are tons o’ spelling/grammar nerds like me here. Just a statement, no comedy.
June 17, 2012 at 4:17 pm
The world would be a better place if more people were spelling/grammar nerds. At least, the internet would be.
June 17, 2012 at 5:35 pm
It would be a more coherent place, that’s for sure.
June 17, 2012 at 8:34 pm
“Anal aspects.” “Close to the waste.” Heh.
I see what you did, there.
June 18, 2012 at 8:01 am
Another quote from “Weekend at Bernie’s, Part Two”, right?
June 18, 2012 at 7:48 am
I’m known as the Harpy Grammarian and proud of it. I proofread everything that leaves my company to be disseminated to the public, and it amazes me how the Marketing Coordinator (who is about 25) is both amused at my insistence on accuracy and dumbfounded that such little things make a difference. The most pervasive error I see of late (and I’m talking major publications) is using “lead” instead of “led.” Do these people’s lips move when they read? Ugh.
June 18, 2012 at 9:39 am
Oh, I’m SO glad I’m not the only one who gets stabby at that one.
A marketing coordinator working with major publications who is amused by your insistence on accuracy? The hell? I mean, those “little things” that you find so important are only the difference between being taken seriously and having your ideas discarded as ridiculous. MAKE SENSE and PROOFREAD. Assuming you want people to read what you write, of course.
You are a much bigger person than I am to put up with that. I just want to pat her on the head. HARD.
June 17, 2012 at 3:20 pm
June 17, 2012 at 5:54 pm
(SPELLING ISN’T MINE)
June 17, 2012 at 8:54 pm
I can’t believe how many times I had to read that to spot the typo.
June 18, 2012 at 9:04 am
Oh, thank God I wasn’t the only one.
June 18, 2012 at 11:34 am
as per [purr]:
“Yeah, he’s here. Where’d you get this number from, dude?”
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not mine either. hers:
StonedCatsOnTumblr
June 17, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Seller was just informing everyone that she was high & wasted when she listed those jorts!
June 17, 2012 at 6:56 pm
Which is the only reasonable way to list jorts for sale.
June 18, 2012 at 8:07 am
I really love the word “jorts”. It’s almost as awesome as “keytar”.
June 17, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Those pants go with this shirt.
June 17, 2012 at 4:16 pm
June 17, 2012 at 4:19 pm
The real idiots are the women who think “Mom Jeans” are back in style. Ugh.
June 17, 2012 at 6:25 pm
June 17, 2012 at 9:25 pm
You mean they’re not? I’d better go shopping then.
June 17, 2012 at 4:35 pm
June 17, 2012 at 4:44 pm
Also, this post topic is pretty much the largest understatement of fact in the history of Regretsy.
June 17, 2012 at 5:25 pm
So would it be correct to say these are Crunk pants?
June 17, 2012 at 6:06 pm
These misspellings are obviously the work of Ed Grimley, trying to keep the high-waisted pants hidden from the discerning fashionistas.
June 17, 2012 at 6:15 pm
There’s a lot of “Glaucoma” in the Etsy community.
June 17, 2012 at 7:00 pm
So is high-waisted now considered anything that actually reaches your waist?
June 17, 2012 at 8:18 pm
I’m pretty sure it’s now considered anything that actually covers your ass crack.
June 18, 2012 at 8:03 am
As long as it covers the taint, it’s consider high waisted.
June 18, 2012 at 8:04 am
“considerED”. I need more coffee.
June 19, 2012 at 8:51 am
For me, anything over low rise sits right on up in my bra strap or armpits….fuck that shit…
June 17, 2012 at 7:09 pm
Dude … what? Oh wait ….
June 17, 2012 at 8:17 pm
Presumably they meant to insert a comma.
June 17, 2012 at 8:37 pm
So if somebody anonymously calls you out as a “fad jellys looser”, there are only 205 possible suspects? Nah.
June 17, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Hi, Wasted! No? (This) high (was) wasted, because the creative results make scrubs look classy? Only 205? Is this Regretsy math again?
June 17, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Only 205? Surprised that number is so low….
June 18, 2012 at 6:30 am
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June 18, 2012 at 9:56 am
When etsy isn’t shitting out butterflies and laughter covered with ooey-gooey happyflakes it creates something that makes me laugh and appreciate my life as a hardcore porn addicted guttersnipe a little more. It completes me.
June 18, 2012 at 9:57 am
Obviously, April, these items require you to be either high or wasted while you are either making or buying them.
What shows up when we look up granny panties?
June 18, 2012 at 11:27 am
just as interesting is the fact that none of this stuff appears to be handmade & most of it would be considered vintage only by people who neither know nor care about vintage, meaning: at best it’s completely generic & often stonewashed garbage from the 1980s/1990s. that etsy has, in its infinite wisdom, chosen not to pull as not vintage, of course, although for what reason i cannot imagine. it’s not like it’s gonna sell.
June 18, 2012 at 11:14 pm
All you need to do is add trashed on there and you have a perfect definition of Etsy.
TBH though I didn’t see what was wrong at first, I was like “well shit I mean it does let you list the materials you used to make it.” Then I had a lightbulb moment.