Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2022 November 11

= November 11 =

Do these two sentences have the same Spanish translation?
"This policy is good." and "This politician (female) is good."? If they share the same translation, is there a specific term that describes this phenomenon? StellarHalo (talk) 01:08, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Están homónimas. They are homonyms. <-Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots-> 01:39, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * More like polisemia. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106;&#x1D110;&#x1d107; 16:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Esta polisemia es buena. --Lambiam 19:31, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
 * This is no Polysemy. According to the article, polysemy is an accidental similarity between two or more words. Bumptump (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Read that sentence in the article again, carefully. --Lambiam 20:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I stand corrected. I read it the other way round. Bumptump (talk) 09:54, 14 November 2022 (UTC)