Re: Fw: Future languages

From: Kenneth Van Oost (Kenneth.Van.Oost@village.uunet.be)
Date: Sat May 11 2002 - 19:06:55 BST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Wade Smith <wade_smith@harvard.edu>

    >
    > On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 02:12 , Kenneth Van Oost wrote:
    >
    > > people developed a special, for everybody to understand,
    > > language.
    >
    > Is this not what language _is_?

    Sorry Wade, but this is drawn out of context, but yes of course this is
    what languages are for.
    But I have it here about those notions which Wilson P described as
    " [ this] something we don 't use, some kind of content we can 't get a
    handle on ".
     
    That is what is meant by this ' special ' language I suppose_ all those
    what I call ' nuances ' were left out and replaced by something which
    everybody, seen in the context, could handle.
    There was no misinterpretation, no misunderstanding left !
    If those " somethings " should have rested in place, you could get killed_
    and seen in the context, no.. their ( native) language was NOT something
    everybody understood.

    Regards,

    Kenneth 

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