What is Bill Gate and Bill Gateaux’ relation?
Is Bill Gates worth attending the State of the Union?
What word would you use to describe ‘Gateaux’, relative to ‘Gates’, where the meaning of the term is irrelevant? What is relation?
I feel like there is a reason my brain associates these two words. Is there any evidence that two words or phrases are connected together?
Is the second term making you think the first term?
“Faux amis” or “false cognates” might be applicable. You are most likely to find similar words in other words because the similarities are limited by their structure and sound sequences. I always use it when I find people trying really direct translations that result in real French/English words having meanings completely different from that intended.
If my brain votes for something you are using free association. If I understand it that way, then. From the cited page:
The method of free association has no linear or preplanned agenda, but works by intuitive leaps and linkages which may lead to new personal insights and meanings: ‘the logic of association is a form of unconscious thinking’
So perhaps you could say
In my reverie, I free-associated Bill Gates, and my subconscious came up with Guillaume Gateaux.
What are the top 10 facts that everyone would like to know about it?
Is the second term making you think the first term?
What is an incorrect word
in writing of a word with the same sound? Could you provide an example: “Texas has quite a few electrical votes,” rather than electoral votes.”
More examples include Archie Bunker calling Orthodox Jews “off-the-docks Jews”, referring to “the Women’s Lubrication Movement” rather than Liberation and “Peach ‘n cake” instead of Piece of Cake.
Is the second term making you think the first term?
What is an incorrect word
in writing of a word with the same sound? Could you provide an example: “Texas has quite a few electrical votes,” rather than electoral votes.”
More examples include Archie Bunker calling Orthodox Jews “off-the-docks Jews”, referring to “the Women’s Lubrication Movement” rather than Liberation and “Peach ‘n cake” instead of Piece of Cake.
I will say: “That’s very Mots d’Heures “, based on the novel by Luis D’Antin Van Rooten. If you are interested in private language answers.
The link was an onomatopoeic link. Is it based 100% on the closeness of sound, as opposed to meaning.
Is it possible to create a word from a sound? Usually, that “sound” is a natural sound e.g. Cuckoo or sizzle is a word for cuckoo and it is pictured in the caption. Is there more than one alternative word to a common one?
If he was older and died in 1992, he was known as Guillaume Portes.
I will say: “That’s very Mots d’Heures “, based on the novel by Luis D’Antin Van Rooten. If you are interested in private language answers.
