To understand the meaning of a certain english word we use dictionary. Now can this be enough to describe the meaning (i mean exact meaning) of the word sought.
Well to explain, suppose I want to understand what does "famished" means. dictionary says
"famished means To cause to endure servere hunger" Now to completely describe I also need to describe the meaning of the words "endure", "severe", "hunger" and all the other words in the sentence...
Noe that means to explain the words described in the meaning of these words will also have to be explained.. Then a time will come wherein the words will come full circle and we would be using the same words to describe the words originally used.. It also may happen that all the words will get exhausted but the process will not continue.
This implies that to understand a word is quite different from describing a word. We understand what other person wants to say but lot of times we argue about what his words want to describe and we never realise the futility of the activity.
Lets all try to understand each other and not argue about what exactly he meant by the words he/she had used..
Language is only the means to express the feeling though it may fall a lot short to explain a lot of situations...
oh now somebody do not ask me to describe what exactly i mean....(or the dictionary will get exhausted and i will still remain incomprehensible)
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