This is outstanding writing advice: there’s no such thing as a synonym. As a writer, it’s your job to find the right word.pic.twitter.com/xSi0V8BDxs
It's true that there are far fewer synonyms than people think, but there are some. If there were no synonyms, you'd never replace a word with a shorter one, and I definitely do that sometimes.
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Depending on the context.
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Plus synonyms are gates to access different perspectives on the same thing
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Related: RUSSELL CONJUGATION - when someone chooses different words to describe something, depending on how favorable they want to be to the thing they are describing https://tomdehnel.com/what-is-russell-conjugation/#:~:text=Russell%20Conjugation%20is%20when%20someone,speaker's%20opinion%20of%20that%20fact ….
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One can almost always replace "utilize" with "use" without changing the meaning, for example. In fact it's arguably the *purpose* of "utilize" to be a pretentious synonym for "use." That's what's so revolting about it.
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Words that are theoretically synonymous don’t end up being synonymous in practice since using the unnecessarily pretentious version adds a new meaning — one about the author
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Words are like people. If they're replaceable, they do not belong in the first place.
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Agreed. Like “help” and “assist”, or “change” and “alter”. The simpler term is almost always better. Though I love the idea that it’s our job to find the right word.
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They just mean to utilize current Era feelings on a word. Funny thing is, that's why a lot of writing hits the fan in later eras. The "modern" people just don't get it
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