One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.
Words have a longevity that I do not have.
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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