•February 8, 2023•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

One of the great things about English is its malleability.
A sentence can take on a different meaning when you apply emphasis in different places.
The same word can hold different meanings in different contexts.
We bend, shape and recombine the same words to form different thoughts.
And that’s because it’s a whole lot easier to find a word with multiple meanings than a word with a singular one.
Can you imagine how much the Broca’s area of your frontal lobe would have to occupy in your noggin if every word had just one meaning?
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