[SOC] Englisch

[Lloyd Lachow]

--- JMcAulay <john@mcaulay.net> wrote:


 John,

 You da lexicographic bomb, man!

> Soem who have considered expanded concepts of
> semiotics, linguistics, and
> semantics have conjectured that because languages
> have developed within
> specific cultures, those languages tend to maintain
> the cultures in
> continuing philosophical modes. 


   Which culture gave us "soem," pray? <g>


 Do we indeed tend
> to do those things which
> we can communicate to others the easiest?  Or are
> they perhaps the easiest
> for us to consider mentally?  If so, this gives
> support to the concept of
> "national tendencies," which would be actually
> common tendencies of those
> who use a common language. 

   I've always felt that thoughts are indeed things,
and that the language we use shapes us and our world
to a degree that would be considered surprising to the unreflective.

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