From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Thu 07 Nov 2002 - 17:52:53 GMT
> Dear Joe,
>
> +> Phonemes are not ideas, for they do not inculcate meaning, but
> > morphemes are.
>
> Indeed, morphemes are meaningful.
>
> > Emoticons inculcate meaning, inasmuch as their
> > function, like that of morphemic prefixes and suffixes, is to modify
> > what is already present respecting its semantic content.
>
> Emoticons are meaningful, too. They are lexemes, no?
>
> However, being meaningful does not make something an idea (in the
> modern sense). Meanings are ideas.
>
> In any event, just as words are not scientific units in linguistics,
> as the question of what is a word is too vague, so I think that the
> question of what is an idea is too vague for scientific purposes.
>
They are not concrete ideas themselves, but modifiers of the
connotations of the ideas to which they are attached.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
>
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