Actually, I suggested a thesaurus because he's an adult and he already speaks English. The words in the dictionary are far from dead and I used little slang here. The study of semantics is alive and well, and he needs to do it. So do a others when they miss sentences like "those two are examples" and "I called you nothing."
And hell, since I've got time, while language is organic it's also highly structured. Which is where semantics come in. Not the colloquial definition of semantics, either.
As I have found out.
http://www.justusboys.com/forum/thr...hroom-Bill?p=10233510&viewfull=1#post10233510

