Thursday, March 22, 2012

Playing With Polysemy

Polysemy differs from homonymy because polysemes are etymologically related words. Homonyms are words that have unrelated meanings.

The very talented Christian Yoder has had a lot of fun playing with polysemy.

ORDER IN THE COURT - When you are ready, here are some examples from his tumblr blog:



WORDPLAY

Polyseme “Order”

ORDER #2
A Soldier
orders in
orders out
orders with
orders without
orders for
orders from
and through
when ordering
from a composite order
of all orders.

ORDER #3
A judge abided by
his order stating that
with order and
for order are
under order
within order and
amid order
according to order.



ORDER #4
The orderly sergeant
calls to order
the order of battle
or the order of arms.

ORDER #5
The ordained order
take holy orders
in the order of worship
which is orderly ordered.
from the ordered mass.

ORDER #6
The order losers
buy order ware
from the order board
or order bill.

ORDER #7
The ordered class
keep order
in ordering orders
by the order paper.


Order numbers 2 -3 Copyright © 9/10/1983 by Christian M. Yoder
Order numbers 4 -7 Copyright © 7/22/1983 by Christian M. Yoder


Just out of curiosity, did anyone else notice that ORDER #1 is missing and that the copyright dates are not in order? I wonder if his blog is out of order.

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