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We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

Words take on many different meanings.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them.

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.