What does "time spent" give you?

Learning a language can be rather challenging at times.  When people learn English, for example, they, at some point in their intermediate path, encounter that words spelled the same have different grammatical categories in usage.  Program is one such example.  The word can be be used as a verb and a noun.  The question always arises, "How can you tell the difference?"  This allows for the discussion on whether an article or determiner precedes the word or whether it shows a verb suffix or verb auxiliary.  Of course, an article or determiner is not always present when used as a noun, and a suffix or auxiliary verb is not always used when used as a verb.  That, in turn allows for further discussion about the location in a sentence a noun can be placed or the location of a verb after a subject in a sentence.  Of course, counter-examples to that rule abound as well, such as the use of the verb as an imperative where no subject to the verb appears.

In my few years on Earth I have found living about the same as learning a language.  First we learn something like lying is bad, then we find that lying has degrees to it, like white lies and black ones.  Then we find ways not to state the truth exactly, but to "fudge" the truth or become silent about something so that the absence of the truth is evident, but it's not lying.  Then we find ways to say what happened in such a way as to hide the lie.  "Dancing around the truth" it's called.  Of course, there is the expression, "glossing the truth."

It takes time, but eventually, experience tells you both how to speak a language and how to filter out lies from truth.  Fluency in one gives fluency in the other,  I like being around people who have time both in language and living.  I trust them a little more.  They know how to tell the difference - in verbs and nouns and in living decently.  Viva "time spent."