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The only response I can think of to this is HUH?YES, but isn't that more honest than that stuff about expensive band width??And now every one is dodging and weaving to avoid Ccats point??:Your...

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yes, and there is a vast right-wing conspiracy out there too, just like Hillary said...but I'm still contemplating the irony of the fact that I'm being accused of "intelectual dishonesty" by someone...

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"What ever happened to the notion that babies create their own language and spend the rest of their lives translating it?"Flippant as it sounds, I actually believe there is a lot more to this than...

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Semiotics and Pragmatics are treated in the link:No, I checked and most any would miss the references to Semiotics as some ancillary discipline when it is central and this person talking about...

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Is a 'Y' shaped diagram a Yangle?

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Quote:Is a 'Y' shaped diagram a Yangle?What precisely do you mean by 'Y' shaped diagram and by Yangle, Chris?

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I'm refering to nb's diagram. Looking at it again, I'm guessing I should be reading it as Y-angle.

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quote:Existentialism is a mother."It is a tale told by an idiot,Full of Sound and Fury,Signifying nothing."BS(Bill Shakespeare)edit:often cited as one of the earliest examples of existentialist...

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Is a 'Y' shaped diagram a Yangle?I first called it a Y-angle, but noticed it was easier to 'say' yangle, so if it catches on, it will inevitably be called yangle. I think it can be used for other...

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I love this bar.

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There is no dilemma about Dave Wilton's point: language aquisition is dependent on both nature and nurture. Both of these have been studied in much depth. If you want to read in detail a...

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quoteAn "idea" (I wouldn't want to grace it with the term "hypothesis") about the widespread tendency for words for "mother" starting with "m" is that it is the single easiest consonant to pronounce....

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In the Georgian language, mama means 'father.' Whoops, there goes another "universal"!

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I am indebted to Ccat for the alert to the Wikipedia article. It looks to me as though 'The School of Semantics' is trying to eat 'The School of Pragmatism' and therefore 'Semiotics'. If someone...

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In the Georgian language, mama means 'father.' Whoops, there goes another "universal"!The sound "mama" is produced naturally by babies early in their development. Its application to refer to one or...

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Petekurt wrote:"In other words, in most languages, including the non-Indo-European ones, is the word-sound for laughter the english "H" sound followed by a modified short "a" sound?"It is in Chinese...

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quote:I would have thought that another example would be "Oww!" (ouch!) but this one varies wildly in the languages I am passingly familiar with. Yes I would have thought the same thing, but I found...

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Quote:Are dinosaur and television just "made-up" words then because they were consciously put together by their earliest discoverers/inventors?If by "made-up", pk, you mean "consciously put together",...

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I think we are back where we started, at "What is the meaning of "made up?"A friend of mine once said:"The end of our journeying is to arrive at the place where we started and know it for the very...

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