Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id VAA24616 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:33:44 GMT Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001109152500.02391cc0@pop3.htcomp.net> X-Sender: mmills@pop3.htcomp.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 15:29:35 -0600 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk From: Mark Mills <mmills@htcomp.net> Subject: Re: What is Meaning In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0011091209110.19346-200000@shellac.militant. org> References: <20001109133230.AAA9926@camailp.harvard.edu@[128.103.125.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
At 12:56 PM 11/9/00 -0800, you wrote:
> The only solution I have been able to come up with thus far has
>been use new or unused words. Trying to use my creativity to give old
>words new meaning, because the words have lost the meaning they have.
Nathan,
You might want to consider the possibility that words have no meaning to
lose since we all invent their meanings independently. Perhaps we never
'receive' meaning, so it can't be lost.
The example of creole development supports this. Children growing up in an
environment dominated by pidgin will invent their own language, a
creole. It occurs in sign-language and verbal communication.
Mark
http://www.htcomp.net/markmills
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