Mike Essig
1 min readFeb 3, 2017

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Nice. When I taught writing, I warned my students that although a thesaurus is useful and fun, it is also dangerous. Any trained linguist will tell you that there are no two words in any language in the world that mean exactly the same thing. You can’t just pick synonyms from a list. Shade, nuance and connotation must be considered or you won’t just change what you say, but also what you mean. If done unintentionally, that can be a dangerous (and sometimes hilarious) thing. :)

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Mike Essig

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