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> English has so many synonyms with slightly different connotations and idiomatic nuances that it is hard to master. You imply the goal was to be precise. The
by posterboy 8y ago
> English has so many synonyms with slightly different connotations and idiomatic nuances that it is hard to master.
You imply the goal was to be precise. The crux is, what you call slightly different connotation is often enough ambiguity and the goal is to be as ambiguous as possible to be understood by as many people as possible without loosing precision, that is without mistakenly falling in the trap of a nuanced connotation.
Point in case for you, my spelling correction does not know "connotated", so that may be a nuance of the English language I was not aware of. Point in case for me, connotated nuanced synonyms (or synonymous nuanced connotations) is a redundant bag of words with something for everyone, yet unspecific enough to leave me guessing, finding no difference between those my two expressions above. ...