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here's an interesting article on Jews returning to Russia
Thanks, nice article.
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... things were hardly much worse during the Irish potato famine.There is actually such a thing as "Irish Diaspora Studies." http://www.bradford.ac.uk/acad/diaspora/
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This might sound like a blinding thrust into the obvious, but a word is anything which is intelligible to the reader or the hearer as a communication with a meaning which is understood, or which is understandable by studying the language or culture of the communicator.
Therefore, "Mt Fuji" is a word, or perhaps two words, and it matters not if it has an antonym or an unclnym. It is a word in any event, or, more precisely, it is two words together producing a name, and that name is a word.
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So right you really are, wordminstrel, but, arr-uh, your obviousness doesn't translate into the sublime finesse of the hitherto electronic conversation. Namely...
Here we are investigating the extent of word meanings in-as-much as they can confine ( and thereby delimitate definitions in a socratic manner.) Obviousnessly, you can restrict a definition to fit a form that is functional. Semantically.
But...can we invent a form which provides insight into the nature of human communication by the delimiting nature of semantical modeling?
I think we can.
(by-the-way, what is an unclymn?)
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Can a real object "symbolize" another real object such as the natural association of Mount Fuji with the nation of Japan?
If so then is "Mount Fuji" a word?
(I refer, of course, to the physical reality of the mountain and not the mountain's name.)
Therefore, "Mt Fuji" is a word, or perhaps two words
not wanting to signify pedanticism (heaven forfend), but haven't we begged the question?! or something?
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I think not, Mister tsuwm, the question "What is a word" is fundamental to a Judaic Christian understanding of the purpose and make up of the Universe.
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God and the Word was God.
From this it is easy to infer that the Word, or at least a mathematical formula for the existence of a Universe, preceded the Universe.
Inherent in the understanding of any such formula, obviously, is the reason for the existence of all of the contributors to this Awad board; including a tsuwm, a Father Steve, or a lowly ameba, or even a Wordminstriel or a Faldage.
Pedanticism, indeed...Repent!
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Repent!
upon careful consideration, I've decided rather to choose nepenthe; thank you very much.
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One might attempt to wash away that bitterness with a dram or two of old style Absinthe.
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And here I was, content in my misguided, benighted fantasy that the majority of earthlings who were not reared under Judeo-Christian precepts had them some words, too, even if sometimes they look funny.
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Matters of orthodoxy aside, it is interesting that the Book of Genesis describes "The Word" as the thing that precedes all else. Not knowing much about Bible studies, I wonder if this is an accurate translation of the original (Hebrew I assume), or did the original text have a different shade of meaning? I'd love to hear what Father Steve has to say on this.
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No, no. Not Genesis. The first few lines of the first chapter of the Gospel According to Saint John. Not written in Hebrew. Most likely composed in Greek.
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