[Lexicog] Synonymy

[Wayne Leman]

What kinds of experiences have you all had when trying to elicit synonyms
from speakers of a language?

Do you sometimes get a response something like, "Oh, there is a little
difference between those words," confirming what many lexicographers and
semanticians has claimed, that there are seldom true synonyms in a language?

Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language



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