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Like the writer of this tract, words fail me.
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I don't understamd it therefore it doesn't mean anything. Is that what y'all are saying?
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I don't understamd it therefore it doesn't mean anything. Is that what y'all are saying? that's not what I'm saying. but the writing does seem to be unnecessarily wordy and jargon-filled.
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I don't understamd it therefore it doesn't mean anything. Is that what y'all are saying? No. Not that I claim to understand exactly what they mean, by, say, Symbiotic Ephemeralization. For me, this particular ex. is like Shakespeare: I comprehend the individual words but they don't make sense to me together. And, while I pretty much understand Proposing a scaleable innovation methodology with substantially linear IP generation and amplification characteristics to replace outmoded lever-based mechanisms. , this sentence is just too much work to take in.
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2. ephemera : Printed matter of passing interest.
Yes Jackie. And after all that work most likely you will get
something like this ephemera thing.
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Does anybody remember, oh, maybe around the turn of the millennium, a couple of guys who published a sesquipedalian-laden article in a respected peer-reviewed journal -- it turned out to be a joke?
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Let me see, now which millennium would that be...
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I'm not saying the article means anything; I'm just saying that it may well mean something to the intended audience. You can diss jargon but often it is the best way to communicate with others who know the jargon while still being totally incomprehensible to outsiders. It doens't even have to be written with the intention of being incomprehensible to outsiders, it just works out that way.
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True; and I see the connection with your first post in this thread. I've written plenty of jargon-y stuff myself.
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Re: What is the purpose of language?
If the purpose is to enable communication... The purpose of language is different for males and females. Or at least for husbands and wives. The primary purpose for males is to communicate information (or disinformation!). The primary purpose for females is to express relationship.
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