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 Re: The Meaning Of Words  [Re: Fraggin]
#11426553 - 11/10/09 01:04 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Fraggin]
#11426588 - 11/10/09 01:09 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fraggin said:
I call it down right annoying.
Which part? The editing? 
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No.
Stating an asserterion and then changing the meanings of the words within the assertions once someone blows a hole in it's meaning.
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Fraggin]
#11426625 - 11/10/09 01:14 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fraggin said:
Stating an asserterion and then changing the meanings of the words within the assertions once someone blows a hole in it's meaning.
I totally agree! 
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Ahimsa]
#11426666 - 11/10/09 01:19 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Thanks for your responses. It was a very interesting read and i am surprised by the follow-up thus far. Most people seem to be very well aware of the dangers of misinterpretation of meanings through the use of words as a communication medium.
Often, and i don't know if this is only my problem, i have encountered getting responses totally unexpected and often strongly deviating from what i posted. This confused me but now i start to think that it has to do with the way i and you are using words.
Thanks for posting... 
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Fraggin]
#11426713 - 11/10/09 01:24 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fraggin said:
No.
Stating an asserterion and then changing the meanings of the words within the assertions once someone blows a hole in it's meaning.
Stating a what?
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Ahimsa
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An asserterion! You heard the man. Lol. 
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Quote:
Mr. Mushrooms said:
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Fraggin said:
No.
Stating an asserterion and then changing the meanings of the words within the assertions once someone blows a hole in it's meaning.
Stating a what?
An assertion.
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Fraggin]
#11426785 - 11/10/09 01:33 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fraggin said:
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Mr. Mushrooms said:
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Fraggin said:
No.
Stating an asserterion and then changing the meanings of the words within the assertions once someone blows a hole in it's meaning.
Stating a what?
An assertion.
I loved 'asserterion' more. Let's change words for meanings instead of meanings for words! Yes?
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Ahimsa]
#11426800 - 11/10/09 01:36 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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But asserterion sounds like some kind of entity that ascertains your shit from afar. But that's just like totally my opinion and I can't prove it. Actually, I can't even prove that it's my opinion.
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Fraggin]
#11426833 - 11/10/09 01:40 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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I once translated the mathematical incompleteness theorem into language.
"One can't prove that one can't prove that anything one says is right or wrong."
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Ahimsa]
#11445151 - 11/12/09 09:58 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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I hate language! There's too many rules, too many words. There's too many languages. It's a mess. We fucked up. Let's start over.
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: bradley]
#11446260 - 11/13/09 05:00 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Obviously not true.
I'm curious though, what would you replace language with and isn't it really something much more basic than language that is the problem?
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: bradley]
#11447651 - 11/13/09 11:36 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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bradley said:
I hate language! There's too many rules, too many words. There's too many languages. It's a mess. We fucked up. Let's start over.
You hate language, but you think we need to start over and create a new language? 
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Icelander]
#11456626 - 11/14/09 08:29 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Eh, just venting my frustrations. I am serious about the linguistic landscape being "a mess", but not the part about how we screwed up and need to start over. I do see promise for simpler, more logical auxiliary languages though.
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Poid]
#11457699 - 11/15/09 12:20 AM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Poid said:
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bradley said:
I hate language! There's too many rules, too many words. There's too many languages. It's a mess. We fucked up. Let's start over.
You hate language, but you think we need to start over and create a new language?
A language based on pure sexual expression purhaps.
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Re: The Meaning Of Words [Re: Dyingjezuz]
#11460769 - 11/15/09 02:24 PM (2 years, 6 months ago) |
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Well I try my best to be just like I am, but everybody wants you to be just like them. -- Bob Dylanfireworks_god said:It's one thing to simply enjoy a style of life that one enjoys, but it's another thing altogether to refer to another person's choice as "wrong" or to rationalize their behavior as being pathological or resulting from some sort of inadequacy or failing so as to create a sense of superiority or separation as yet another projection of a personal fear or control issue.
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