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#212151 - 08/14/13 10:19 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]
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Posts: 13,803 And there's no correlation between the sound and the thing being referred to.
#212157 - 08/15/13 03:15 AM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: Faldage]
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Vermont Originally Posted By: FaldageAnd there's no correlation between the sound and the thing being referred to.
onomatopoeia?
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#212160 - 08/15/13 10:38 AM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]
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Posts: 13,803 Even that is subject to the phonemics of a given language. Here is a compendium of dog barks in different languages.
#212162 - 08/15/13 02:16 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]
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Vermont Fascinating!
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#212174 - 08/16/13 06:30 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi So as this board now turns, we agree that "words" have no intrinsic relationship to the object or the non-objects they represent, therefore "words" have no meaning; words only have a function, namely -- the transfer of thoughts between human beings and other human beings and to dogs and monkeys and maybe, but not likely, to cats. Right?
#212178 - 08/16/13 09:36 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: Faldage]
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Netherlands, the Hague Great! Very amusing this dog-bark list. Thank you Faldage!Originally Posted By: FaldageEven that is subject to the phonemics of a given language. Here is a compendium of dog barks in different languages.
Interesting detail: only English and Dutch have the sound of very small dogs included (yip-yip and kef-kef).
Basque language is uniquely having a sound of old dogs included (jau-jau). Great list!
Everything has the meaning one is willing or capable of to give to it, I think.
#212183 - 08/17/13 01:49 AM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: BranShea]
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this too shall pass I think that we can all agree that when we use a word, it means just what we choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
#212185 - 08/17/13 11:32 AM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]
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Posts: 13,803 And there's whole lists of words we pay extra.
#212186 - 08/17/13 12:33 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: tsuwm]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Quote:I think that we can all agree that when we use a word, it means just what we choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
Yes, tsuwm, but usually when we choose a word we choose to have it understood by whomever it is we are to speak, otherwise, why speak?
The salient question is: Where and how is a word physically stored in the brain where it waits unobtrusively for our request for retrieval?
#212188 - 08/17/13 02:05 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]
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Vermont > usually when we choose a word we choose to have it understood by whomever it is we are to speak, otherwise, why speak?
Oh, I think there are a lot of people who speak only to hear themselves.
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