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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 … 10 11 Go to page... #212151 - 08/14/13 10:19 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 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]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Originally Posted By: Faldage And there's no correlation between the sound and the thing being referred to. onomatopoeia? formerly known as etaoin... #212160 - 08/15/13 10:38 AM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: jenny jenny]   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 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]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Fascinating! formerly known as etaoin... #212174 - 08/16/13 06:30 PM Re: Why is Understanding Evolution important? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]   Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny   veteran Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 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]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Originally Posted By: Faldage Even that is subject to the phonemics of a given language. Here is a compendium of dog barks in different languages. Great! Very amusing this dog-bark list. Thank you Faldage! 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]   Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 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]   Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 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]   Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny   veteran Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 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]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 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. formerly known as etaoin... Page 3 of 11 1 2 3 4 5 … 10 11 Go to page... Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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