Ahh, I love the icon! My Princess Bride calendar is right here on my office wall, and Inigo is my very favorite character. I have a T-shirt with that line on it, too.
The La Brea example is a very close match to the RSVP silliness. But the other one is actually sort of the inverse ... see, "Park" is what my husband the engineer would call an "overloaded operator" - the words are homonyms and homographs but they don't actually mean the same thing.
So in one case we have two different words that mean the same thing, and in the other we have a single word that means two different things. And I'm finding the juxtaposition of the two ideas rather fun.
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Ahh, I love the icon! My Princess Bride calendar is right here on my office wall, and Inigo is my very favorite character. I have a T-shirt with that line on it, too.
The La Brea example is a very close match to the RSVP silliness. But the other one is actually sort of the inverse ... see, "Park" is what my husband the engineer would call an "overloaded operator" - the words are homonyms and homographs but they don't actually mean the same thing.
So in one case we have two different words that mean the same thing, and in the other we have a single word that means two different things. And I'm finding the juxtaposition of the two ideas rather fun.