[I]“Don’t tell me words don’t matter.”[/I] … Barak Obama Context… [I]“the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning”[/I] or [I]“the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs.”[/I] At least this is what Webster seems to think. A more cynical view, a’la Ambrose Bierce, might suggest a more literal meaning these days could be… [I]“Those interrelated elements and facets of verbal or textual discourse typically omitted
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