Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:23:22 -0400
Reply-To: Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Joe Whitehurst <joewhitehurst@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: OT: Thursday Theory
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Interesting. If I didn't know better, I would think you scholars think that
a human language is fixed and words have an immutable, defined role or even
a definite part of speech as an attribute It appears that the commenters on
this thread are unfamiliar with the works of Wittgenstein, Korzybski, Sapir
or Whorf. What I find particularly amusing consists of the use of the
identity form of the verb "to be" with no apparent awareness that:
*The complete attempt to deal with the term is would go to the form and*
*matter of every thing in existence, at least, if not to the possible form
and*
*matter of all that does not exist, but might. As far as it could be done,
it*
*would give the grand Cyclopaedia, and its yearly supplement would be the*
* history of the human race for the time. * AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN
On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Sigurd Hermansen <HERMANS1@westat.com>wrote:
> "befriend" is a verb, though, alas, our cyber persona lose the semantics
> and pragmatics of the word as well as the syntax.
> S
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike
> Zdeb
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 2:12 PM
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: OT: Thursday Theory
>
> hi ... http://www.despair.com/somevedi.html
>
> "Friend is a NOUN."
> Mike Zdeb the social disease maven
>
> > Ah, the difficult choices these daze:
> >
> > FaceBook
> > or
> > LinkedIn
> >
> > I am getting many friend requests
> > and recommendations
> > on FB.
> >
> > -- leave it to a software program to take (friends-of friends)
> > to the N-th degree --
> >
> > Here is a politely civil (PC) reminder:
> >
> > Q: How many is too many?
> >
> > A: FB: 5,000
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/fashion/30FACEBOOK.html
> >
> > see also Dunbar's Numbers for size of groups: 50, 150, 300
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
> >
> > for the record:
> > got to have a picture for me to friend you
> >
> > "Ah, yes, a face to go w/the e-mail address!"
> >
> > Ron Fehd the social networking maven
> >
>
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