Hi
Ok - so - what if it
did mean, "cattle?"
What's another word for Thesaurus?
In Japanese, the word, "ikura," means both 'how much' and 'salmon eggs.' You can't point at the salmon eggs at the Sushi Bar and ask, "how much," because the obvious answer is, "yes, salmon eggs!"
("Ikura desu ka?" "Hai! Ikura desu!" Very confusing.)
In German, the word, "gluck," means both luck and happiness, and it would take a seriously dedicated gambler to get them confused. In English, the word, "board," can mean
provide, supply, ply, cater, enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into, populate, dwell, live, and inhabit.
You couldn't possibly misunderstand that, "I will board Dr. Jenkins for the summer," meant, "I will get onto Dr. Jenkins for the summer," without that whole eye-patch, peg-leg, and parrot thing going on, now could you?
There are only so many sounds that go together in any language, and depending on your linguistic culture and origins, words sounding the same can have very different meanings.
If a cute little Israeli girl, during a passionate embrace, smiles and whispers in my ear, "so - you wanna be my
Shabbas goy," I'd be
pretty sure she's not talking about livestock.
....
Well... actually... considering it's
ME she'd be talking to... you know... she
might be....