I sent the link to this paper to a Francophile friend who came back with this evidence that English and French are homophonically isomorphic. Un petit d'un petit S'étonne aux Halles Un petit d'un petit Ah! degrés te fallent Indolent qui ne sort cesse Indolent qui ne se mène Qu'importe un petit d'un petit Tout Gai de Reguennes. Taken from Mots-dHeures-Gousses-dAntin-Manuscript <http://www.amazon.com/Mots-dHeures-Gousses-dAntin-Manuscript/dp/0140057307/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443277437&sr=8-1&keywords=Mots+d%27heures+gousses+rames> by Luis d'Antin van Rooten. I had Google Translate read it for me several times before I began to get it. If you are puzzled see wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_translation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophonic_translation> Edwin Clark On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:53 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
See http://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.em/1062620828 which as I recall proves that the homophony group of English is trivial.
Jim Propp
On Friday, September 25, 2015, Michael Kleber <michael.kleber@gmail.com> wrote:
Brought to mind by Wouter's question is: Consider the group generated by the letters A through Z, with the relations that any two English homonyms are equal. Prove that the groups is trivial.
Wouter's question was to show h is trivial, so 25 letters to go :-).
--Michael
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