> avoid having words that start with the same letter in the same sentence. I remember when I was a teenager I used to get frustrated that English words had so

> avoid having words that start with the same letter in the same sentence. I remember when I was a teenager I used to get frustrated that English words had so many homophones and overlaps and synonyms. I thought why can't every concept and idea have its own distinct word? Why would we clutter up the language with fuzzy overlaps, overloaded terms, and the need to disambiguate so frequently? The disambiguation melts away with experience as you begin to sharpen your contextual locating skills. But I recall at one point I realized that one of the great things that is afforded by the language is that you have slack for adding phonetic variation to your sentences and they, for lack of a better word, sound less dumb. When something is repeated too much in a sentence or paragraph somehow it affords less clarity, and comes off childlike in some way. There's something about it that you can't quite twist out another facet on a subject through plain repetition. I never matured that idea any further, but it seemed like a fascinating insight into the operational workings of English.