We have seen several extensions of these contrasts, and have discovered that a word's collocations , what it can be combined semantically with, can provide strong indications of its meaning. Alone, however, they are not proof and should not be accepted uncritically.
The simelarities in semantic elements suggest the idea that human beings might all have the same ones from which to build words, and at the beginning of this book there is a list of the most common and unviversal elements. It is reasonable to suspect that we all have the same basic building blocks of articulate thought, for we are all human beings.This concept of universally shared elements is clearly not true for words, however. Languages differ widely even in their central aspects such as deixis for what words they have and what their meanings are.Ofcourse, the words that describe the world must necessarily vary quite a lot; Eskimos live in aworld that is very different from that of the polynesians,so their language need words for things that dont even exist in the ohters world,like snow and coral for instance. it might be however,that the same elements can have different