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one pronounciation, two meanings

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Haha, an amazingly embarassing example of "one pronounciation, two meanings" is recently shown in the headline of china communist party funded newspaper.

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(read it loud in cantonese.)

I believe there're more examples in homophony-loaded mandarin. Any suggestions?

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