Re: Perfect Synonyms

On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:05:55 -0400, "CDB" <bellemarec@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

angelgloww2000*@yahoo.com wrote:

[I think most here agree about synonymy]

Synonymity is a collocation issue, not merely a lexical issue.
It's not whehter "hosue" and "home" can mean the same thing
lexcially (denotatively) but whether they have the same use in the
language game: the sentence, communication.

You seem to be implying that "house" and "home" are lexically the
same. They are no such thing, however many salesmen abuse them. A
house is essentially a place of shelter, as you say; home is where you
belong (ask any arrow), the place where, when you go there, they have
to take you in, the place you somehow haven't to deserve.

[...]
I live in a house, and I hope that I am never sent to a home.

Which noun stands for what shelters me and which noun stands for where
I feel I belong?


--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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