Language taken as fact - I always use the dictionary to broaden my understanding of words, as if these are facts. But connotations are entirely subjective, dependent on individual experience - language itself isn't a science, its cultural and man-made. What is the dictionary - defining the dictionary - is it the opinion of the majority - what they think that word means? Strikes me to be like colour - all using words with slightly different connotations - but never really know what other people see.
Language is all code - standing in for something material that the sound itself is not. Like learning a new language - where the foreign words are code for the English words, and the English words are code for something other.
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