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“The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.”
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“Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.”
― Meet Mr. Mulliner
― Meet Mr. Mulliner

“I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark”
― Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox
― Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox

“A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.”
― The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
― The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English

“Nothing holds back human progress as frequently as the misbelief that the words ‘impossible’ and ‘improbable’ are synonyms.”
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“Since language was increasingly believed to be the semiotic system which could be analyzed with the most profit […] and the system which could serve as a model for all other systems […] the model of the linguistic sign gradually came to be seen as the semiotic model par excellence. // By the time this conclusion was reached ( the definitive sanction took place with Saussure), the linguistic model was crystallized into its 'flattest' form, the one encouraged by the dictionaries and, unfortunately, by a lot of formal logic which had to fill its empty symbols only for the sake of exemplification as well. As a consequence, the notion of meaning as synonymy and as essential definition began to develop.”
― Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
― Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
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