At 12:17 -0400 on 11/02/2010, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: ATTACH:
You can get in trouble even if you know those nuances, because an idiom has semantics based on factors beyond vocabulary. Understanding the individual words perfectly doesn't help.
There is also the issue that words pick up extra meanings over time and thus the same sentence can have different meanings based on when it was used or the intended connotation of the definition word. There is also the case of regional word definitions and the use of different words for the same concept. English terms as opposed to US terms are an example. UK English uses Bonnet and Boot where US English uses Hood and Trunk (for car parts).
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