homonyms

That said, homophones and homonyms only would make the 3-gram sets smaller, but it would only detect homophones and homonyms being used incorrectly.

Perhaps another interesting breakdown would account (and give extra points) for homonyms since it's sort of 2 words.

A better way to think about it in English are homonyms, in Korean there's pretty much a 1:1 mapping between pronunciation and spelling so all homophones are pretty much homonyms.

The great thing is that it doesn’t matter how many people out there slander me with politically-correct ad-homonyms.

In many cases what's happening is Chinese citizens find ways around the censors by searching for homonyms and other permutations of censored topics.

Seriously, do they not teach contractions and homonyms in schools anymore?

The time/arrow sentence is also not an issue for humans as it's simply the result of two homonyms that happen to be verbs for one definition.

Actually, both are right, because the words are homonyms.

It detected correctly that I was in Toronto and then the search for restaurants names would all return homonyms all across the world.

In my idiolect, those two words are homonyms.

(really you 'assed' me a question?) It can quickly make a conversation ambiguous as this tendency results in lots oh homonyms.

Besides this, pattern recognition is strong & easy -- tons of cognates and near-cognates, and most of the homophones & homonyms are common enough words that you'll learn them quickly regardless.

You may have meant 分かります or even perhaps 解ります but 判ります is closer to "to know" in the sense of judgement, as in "It is a handy to have a dictionary around when you don't know which of the homonyms is the most correct usage." (It is perhaps easier to remember if you know the word 判断 already.) (Are you perhaps writing on Linux?

I have to point out that I'm writing all of this as someone who respects RMS and FSF's cause a great deal, I even use the term free software rather than open source (in my native language, fortunately, there's no confusion about "free", free as in freedom and free as in bear are not homonyms).

Homonyms are not the same word, you ridiculous caricature.

Homonyms can be confusing but it helps when such a stark difference in meaning makes it easy to distinguish what meaning is appropriate in a given context.