superficial and shallow. How to distinguish them?
Their Chinese meanings are similar so that I can not distinguish .T.T Can you give me a hand?
Thank you.
My thinking that SHALLOW is not based upon Latin at all is correct, as is show here:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=shallow&searchmode=none
If you want to know more about the specific distinctions between words in English, I suggest that you begin a study of Latin Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes, because about 60 to 70 percent of all English words show Latin influence. Most of the rest show Greek influence [Chaos, Cosmos, Logos etc.] and about 10 percent of English is made up of words from other languages of the world.
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