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My goodness, Branny! Wherever did you get that picture of Aramis?
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Yes.Kind of cute,I think. (You could also use it as an advertising board for the Snipping Shop of course.)  One more for the road; if you click Struwwelpeter Menu on that page, you will get delightful little horror stories for the educational benefit of little children. Both in German and English.
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Language is often misunderstood to be a mere subject in thought - I wonder who seriously defends such a thesis. The purported exclusivity smacks of a "straw man argument", which you then proceed easily to demolish.
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"Ho, ho, very funny. Ha ha; it is to laugh."
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I concur! Language is a vehicle for communication, and without communication, we are all alone.
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Language is a vehicle for communication, and without communication, we are all alone. Can anyone spot the logical fallacy here?
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You mean, we can still talk to ourselves?
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Language is a vehicle for communication, and without communication, we are all alone. The implicit conclusion here is that without language we are all alone, but the unwarranted assumption is that language is the only vehicle for communication. Then there are some linguists who feel that one of the more important functions of language is to lie.
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Then there are some linguists who feel that one of the more important functions of language is to lie.Any pointers? I'd like to read some of them. There's even a fellow at UC Santa Cruz, John M. Ellis ( here's an interview), who does not think that language has anything to do with communication: see his Language, Thought, and Logic. Just plain weird. I blogged about it ( here and there) a while back. I read his Against Deconstruction earlier which made more sense.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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It all reads a bit philosophically to me.
Language is to thought as sound is to speech. they are both facets of the same thing. Ultimately......communication.
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