Finding the right word is like finding the right cereal at the supermarket. Do I want flakes or chunks, corn or wheat, rice or oats, gluten-free or all the glutens? Organic, healthy, sustainably farmed or something chock full of chemicals and additives and frosted with high-fructose corn syrup?
Oh, you just want good old-fashioned Cheerios? There are twenty varieties to choose from.
We all use the same language — English. But for almost anything we want to say, there are nearly endless ways to say it. Different sentence structures and different phrasings. And yes, even different words.
Is this cow standing in the middle of a pasture? Or a field? Or a meadow? Is it standing, or eating, or grazing? Or perhaps staring into the distance thinking deep, philosophical cow thoughts?
Is it just a cow? Or a dairy cow? A Guernsey? Is that Guernsey brown and white, tan and white, or caramel and cream?
Going back to the first article in this series, we talked about how …
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