I was on my way to Randburg the other morning. As I was plodding along in the traffic, I glanced at the car in the next lane, and noticed something very strange going on inside. The driver was bopping his head in time to the music from his iPod earphones!

“Well, what’s so strange about that?” you ask. Well, his wife was sitting aimlessly next to him, completely cut-off from the song in his ears.

Well speaking of blogoi (logoi, Greek for words), I have always been fascinated by languages & words. I have had the privilege of studying five languages, dabbling in another two and if you include reading music and some odd computer languages, I can add a few more notches to my belt.

Well with all this talk of language, I was recently thinking about synonyms … Why are there synonyms in language? Surely language would be simpler and more functional without synonyms.