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#130923 07/31/04 09:44 PM
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No, but I've heard that

very good, grasshopper.



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Cubby's florets

flowers taking *chances?



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flowers taking *chances?

Er, nope. Albert Romolo Broccoli versus Virag Lipoti.


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I will sleep better tonight for it

Did you have you a good night's sleep? 'Cause this raises my old question that I ask every time some prescrip declares that, e.g., incent isn't a word. We're stretching a little farther on this one, but, what does it take for a set of phonemes to be a word? What is it beyond pronounceability, recognizability, and conveyance of meaning that is required to endow a group of phonemes with the blessings of word status? I've never had anyone even attempt an answer. I'm assuming here, for purposes of discussion, that 'conveyance of meaning' implies that at least some significant subset of the speakers of a given language will, in some specific context, understand the meaning of the word-candidate in that language.


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"...what does it take for a set of phonemes to be a word? What is it beyond pronounceability, recognizability, and conveyance of meaning that is required to endow a group of phonemes with the blessings of word status? I've never had anyone even attempt an answer. I'm assuming here, for purposes of discussion, that 'conveyance of meaning' implies that at least some significant subset of the speakers of a given language will, in some specific context, understand the meaning of the word-candidate in that language." asks faldage

At the risk of being called a (hush) Prescriptionist I'll delimit the meaning of all words. As such...

A word is a symbolic representation of information about the encircling environment but only when it is understood by an entity which thinks.

Well faldage, what do you think?


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OK--a word is a symbolic representation of information about the encircling environment but only when it is understood by an entity which thinks.


today (once again!) the NYT crossword has a clue (#45)Shoebox letters.
in that context(or should i call it an encircling environment)--i.e., letter found on shoeboxes-- EEE is a symbolic representation of information and while it might not be understood by everybody, it is easily understood by an entity which thinks.

i have bought shoes in england and italy.. and other places.. not everyone uses EEE (my size my the way, she admits, while crossing her toes over toes, in an effort to make her feet look smaller)--but i quickly come to understand when other codes are used, and to quickly be able to figure out my size.. (N- as in Narrow, vs, M or W or WW is one very common alternate to the A-B-...EEE gauge.)

so i am guessing you agree with faldage.. and eee is a word.



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eeek! Yes , of Troy, I grudgingly agree with Faldage. Which is somewhat a wonder because I have often noted than many times it seems that Faldage doesn't agree with Faldage.
And sometimes rightly so.

And speaking of "ergodic" of Troy,
I thought that your explanation of the term's meaning was by far the most logical. As a matter of fact I will from this day forth use " ergodic" to denote any system that will revert to a predictable state given the addition of larger samples through adequate time.
Thank you.


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I looked word up in the AHD and it defines word in terms of morpheme which doesn't help too much, because it defines morpheme in terms of word. I would think your definition a little too broad, amemeba, as it would include such things as the symbols on traffic signs. This is not a word:

http://members.aol.com/rmoeuradot/200x200/reg/R3-2.gif


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re:Which is somewhat a wonder because I have often noted than many times it seems that Faldage doesn't agree with Faldage.

YUP, i'll second that-consistanty is the hobgobblin of small minds.. faldage is many things, but never small minded!


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Faldage doesn't agree with Faldage.

Besides, I'm a Fool; therefore, I don't necessarily espouse everything I espouse.


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