English to Afrikaans Meaning of phony - valse


Phony :
valse

vervalste, nagemaakte, skyn, valse, kunsmatige, onbehoorlike, onwerklik, hol, onwaar

phoniesbedrieërphonying
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Definitions of phony in English
Noun(1) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
Adjective(1) fraudulent; having a misleading appearance
Examples of phony in English
(1) To analyse language and to define language disorders most linguists divide language into four domains: phonology , grammar, semantics, and pragmatics.(2) His remarks on French, focus on syntax and semantics, all but omitting phonology , phonetics and orthography.(3) Dan is now a distinguished specialist on Amazonian languages and professor of phonetics and phonology at the fine Department of Linguistics at the University of Manchester in England.(4) Differences in phonology can usually be associated with the geographic location of the speaker.(5) While these languages shared phonology and grammar, they had entirely different vocabularies.(6) Semantics is not even in second place; what comes next in respect to time devoted to it in linguistic curricula is phonology (the study of speech sounds).(7) Panini was a Sanskrit grammarian who gave a comprehensive and scientific theory of phonetics, phonology , and morphology.(8) Roman Jakobson's good friend, that arch-structuralist aristocrat Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy, famously said that phonetics is to phonology as numismatics is to economics.(9) Pidgins and Creoles do not have a single phonology and phonology remains the least stable system in otherwise stabilized pidgins.(10) While this research demonstrates that phonological previews aid in the processing of the target word, evidence from individual difference studies suggests that phonology is not used in the same manner by all readers.(11) Though more study is needed I'm a big fan of the scientific method, but this reminds me of a spoof term paper I once wrote, many years ago, after having read one too many phonetics articles debunking the perceptions of phonologists .(12) He was not just a great linguist - phonologist , grammarian, semanticist, and polyglot - but a musician, musicologist, Orientalist, and gourmet (he wrote a book called The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters); and a wonderful humorist.(13) This difficulty has been linked to weaknesses in phonological skills, particularly phonemic awareness.(14) These patients have severe phonological deficits in the assembled phonology pathway, and appear to read exclusively via semantics.(15) The list contains words that prove very difficult to recode phonologically because of the complex orthographic patterns they comprise.(16) The difficulty of this contrast is that the phonemes included were phonologically similar, though contrastive.
Related Phrases of phony
Synonyms
Adjective
1. bogus ::
bogus
3. fake ::
vals
4. fraudulent ::
bedrieglike
5. spurious ::
onwaar
6. counterfeit ::
nagemaakte
7. forged ::
vervalste
8. feigned ::
geveinsde
9. pseudo ::
pseudo
10. imitation ::
nabootsing
11. sham ::
skyn
12. man-made ::
Mensgemaakte
13. mock ::
spot
14. ersatz ::
ersatz
15. synthetic ::
sintetiese
16. artificial ::
kunsmatige
17. simulated ::
gesimuleerde
18. pretended ::
voorgegee
19. contrived ::
slinks
20. affected ::
geraak
21. insincere ::
ernstig
22. inauthentic ::
inauthentic
23. pretend ::
voorgee
24. put-on ::
sit aan
Noun
25. impostor ::
bedrieër
26. sham ::
skyn
27. fake ::
vals
28. fraud ::
bedrog
29. charlatan ::
charlatan
30. con artist ::
swendelaar
Antonyms
1. authentic ::
outentieke
2. genuine ::
ware
3. real ::
werklike
Different Forms
phonies, phony, phonying
Word Example from TV Shows
You fuckin' phony!

You fuckin' PHONY!

Westworld Season 2, Episode 9

At the end of the day he's just
another Hollywood phony.

At the end of the day he's just another Hollywood PHONY.

The Big Bang Theory Season 7, Episode 7

- So do it.
- But if I do, I'll be a phony.

- So do it. - But if I do, I'll be a PHONY.

The Big Bang Theory Season 6, Episode 6

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