> We have a lot of words that mean exactly the same thing, but that we pretend mean different things. They could have meant different things at some point in t

> We have a lot of words that mean exactly the same thing, but that we pretend mean different things. They could have meant different things at some point in time. A Language can change drastically with time and if the people using the words stop differentiating between them it may appear as if it was only a game of pretend. This only becomes a problem when someone that doesn't see a difference in meaning communicates with someone that does.