Let's talk about language.

          The English language must be one of the hardest to understand if one has not learned it from childhood up.  Not only can it deviate according to the area the speaker is from such as a Texas accent you could cut with a knife, a southern accent.  I always thought I had no accent.  It was everyone else who had one.  I learned that this is not true .  I had one.  I found out when I went to the National Academy of Broadcasting to become a radio announcer.  I was made aware of the fact that I said the word color as if I were saying the word collar.  Color… such as the color red is pronounced as if it were spelled with a U rather than an O.  You start to say it as if your were going to say cuff.  Collar… Such as the the collar of your shirt is pronounced more like you were saying ah…  Hence, I realized that I actually did have an accent.

            Another thing about our language is the fact that some words have multible meanings.  Depression is a good example.

 

Depression is a noun

1.  Severe despondency and dejection, especially when long-lasting and accompanied by physical symptoms.

2.  A long and severe recession in an economy or market.

3.  The action of depressing or pushing down on something like a button.

4.  A sunken place or hollow.

5, Meteorology a cyclonic weather system such as a tropical depression.

 

            The first is caused by ones inability to withstand great stress.  It is a frame of mind.  The second is a financial thing.  The stock market crash is the first thing that comes to mind.  Number three is an action.  You push a button or compress a swimming raft to push the air out of it.  The fourth example is any hole or valley.  I live in a valley between two mountains which span around the valley.  This is why the valley could be considered a depression or a sunken area.  The fifth example is something the weather man is always looking for.  A tropical depression can cause severe thunderstorms or even tornadoes or hurricanes.

This means you must know where the word is in the sentence and what the speaker is eluding too in order to know just what the word means.

            When you hear the word inflation what do you immediately think of?  I automatically consider the rising cost of living.  However you do inflate a tire, swimming raft or inner tube to use in the swimming pool or swimming hole.  Take the word out of context and it becomes a string of letters which could mean anything or nothing at all.  The English language is loaded with these words.  The accents can make it even harder to understand.