It’s an old joke, revived in today’s Bizarro: Yes, the homophonous homo ‘human being, man [generic]’ (as in Homo sapiens) and homo ‘same’ (as in homophone), producing some confusion about the homo in homosexual, which etymologically conveys ‘same sex’ but many people take to refer to sex with men. Tucked in there is the back-formed singular … Continue reading An old joke