Why do we have synonyms? Why do we have to make life so difficult by having 10 different words having the same meaning?
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Posted by milander May 4th, 2012 at 1:22PM
I had a good day today, ate a good sandwich and watched a good film on my good tv. My good wife was good to me in bed and the se.x was good too. All in all I had a good day. Hope tomorrow is just as good.
See why we need synonyms... (and antonyms)
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Reply by englishsteve May 4th, 2012 at 2:35PM
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Posted by RenaissanceKoala May 4th, 2012 at 1:17PM
So that we can write and speak eloquently.
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Posted by winstonwelles Dec 30th, 2012 at 2:23PM
Because they almost never have "the same meaning". They have very subtly different meanings. That's why thesauruses exist -- it's not to help you find a word that sounds better, it's to help you find precisely the RIGHT word that means almost the same as the one you're thinking of.
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Posted by Kentex Aug 6th, 2012 at 1:08PM
I don't know, maybe thats why women seem to have fifteen kinds of happy , twenty different mad and infinite ways to be sad. I'm mad, sad or glad. And some of us are just gabby.
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Posted by PeyoteCoyote May 4th, 2012 at 1:17PM
Synonyms are useful. Homonymns suck.
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Posted by thiswhisper May 4th, 2012 at 1:16PM
We're an expressive race. More words add emphasis.
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Posted by AnnDroid7 May 4th, 2012 at 1:18PM
It makes writing poetry much easier.
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Posted by FordPrefect42 May 4th, 2012 at 1:17PM
They're not the same meaning though...like "sprinkle" and "downpour" both mean "rain", but are very different.
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Posted by peza May 4th, 2012 at 1:17PM
Because we like them.
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Posted by justkoz May 4th, 2012 at 1:17PM
We need symtoms to help us be sick.
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