Meanwhile, in English:
Yoo-hoo! Thereau thoroughly thought ‘twas you, Hugh, who threw Theaux through the tough dough trough.
Thou laughed, though! No? He ought not’ve thought aught of it.
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Meanwhile, a grammatically correct English sentence:
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
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It it a homonym? Or is this due to their different scripts?
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You forgot about 噛み (to bite)
kami kami kami -> Paper hair God
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My favourite is still: 庭には二羽鶏がいる Niwa niwa niwa niwatori ga iru There are two chicken in the garden.
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My favorite has to be 切る. 26 ducking meanings! It's not even a different kanji per meaning! WTF!
Also mandatory Dogen video.
Japanese has significantly fewer sounds than many languages, so homonyms are inevitable. Thanks to kanji this isn't much of an issue in written Japanese, but spoken Japanese (and Japanese written without the use of kanji) relies heavily on context.
The alternative would be ridiculously long words. Example: the English word "extra" (five letters, two syllables) is pronounced "ekisutora" in Japanese (still five letters, but also five syllables); this is a result of every consonant needing to be followed by a vowel (except for "n" and a short list of compounds like "sh"). Additionally, Japanese only has five vowel sounds, plus a few that you can force out (e.g. "ka" can be slightly modified to "kya" to approximate the "a" sound in "cat"). Japanese also contains fewer consonant sounds than a number of other languages.
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