A homonym, in English, is a word with more than one meaning. An example is the word light. In Dutch, I just learned from a study that a sentence homonym also exists, and the only way to disambiguate them is by context. An example is the following sentence: de verkoopster is te lelijk om te verleiden; which could mean (1)the shopgirl is too ugly to seduce anybody, or (2)the shopgirl is too ugly for anybody to seduce.
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