What exactly is the need for building up vocabulary or knowing new words over and above the common words ? I am not asking from academic perspective but trying to grasp the real need for learning new words. Some say that it helps express oneself better but how that’s not possible with the most commonly used words and rare words are anyways perhaps might not be comprehensible as they are uncommon. Isn’t simple and easy better ? Most books use uncommon words that are not spoken in day to day life. Request your views

  • bofh000@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You know how when you’re wearing shades … you can see well enough … but then you take them off and you realize there’s a lot more colors and hues than you could see with the shades on? That’s how knowing more words is: you don’t know how helpful it it and how much it expands your way of thinking (not only of expressing yourself) until you know a lot more words.

    Even the most common concepts or emotions… it’s amazing when you realize how one word can make a lot of difference compared to another.

    Just think it’s like having a full panoply of tools for your project, and they’ll award you infinitely more precision while you work than just having a standard set of 6 screwdrivers.