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• Nature is said to be economical. She would hardly have us make so much effort and use so much energy without some purpose, and some purpose
• So we determine that the purpose of using language is to convey meaning, to give ideas that we have to someone else.
• That kind of discourse would be called description. Its purpose is to make another see in his mind's eye the same image or picture that we have in our own. On
• he could follow you readily, could almost live through the various happenings that you related, you would be telling your story well. That kind of discourse is not description but narration.
• live through the events of discovery but to make him understand something which you understand.