[RonBee]

Originally Posted by pljames

I love the English language but I am prejudiced and biased against synonyms. Let's take the word absolute. If the word needs no help before it or after it then why do people say...the truth is absolute or the absolute truth? Wouldn't this be an oxymoron in sentence construction? True synonyms do explain related words, but does absolute, if the word has no beginning or end to define it even in a sentence why do people use it as, the absolute truth or vice versa?

Why can't the truth mean truth? Why do people assume and state that the word...needs help before or after a word which needs no defining? What may be truth to you might not be truth to me.