/lit/ - Literature

>>18192204
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>>15176136
When it doesn't interrupt my reading. I don't remember when, but I was made aware of the general imprecision of day-to-day speech. Looking up words like "discursive" which I only understood in one sense (belonging to or relating to modes of discourse), and learning the broader and narrower meanings of the word – this has demonstrated to me the power and necessity of precision of diction. This can be tiring, but not unbearable if you treat words like a painter appreciates colors. John Searle says we think in "images of words." The sense of a word is like a general color (red, scarlet), and a word and its close synonyms are like the tints and shades. Pay attentions to the constitutive metaphor of words indicated by its etymological primitives {dis (around, about) - currere (to run)}.