Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id CAA11788 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 26 Nov 2001 02:23:41 GMT Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 18:18:34 -0800 Message-Id: <200111260218.fAQ2IYU05163@mail3.bigmailbox.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.116) X-Originating-Ip: [216.76.255.98] From: "Joe Dees" <joedees@addall.com> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: A Question for Wade Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
> Re: A Question for WadeDate: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 21:03:21 -0500
> "Wade T.Smith" <wade_smith@harvard.edu> "Memetics Discussion List" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>
>Hi Joe Dees -
>
>>the equation e=mc^2 ... may be ... written in many languages
>
>I've long held a sort of aesthetic theory that, yeah, the form "E=mc2"
>(an equation, using one term to correlate a phrase consisting of an
>object and a modified action), to be the most pure form of metaphor, but,
>that sort of philosophy aside, in what other language can I write that
>particular equation?
>
>How can something so specific to its location and function in knowledge
>be translated at all, without becoming something quite else?
>
>Are you saying that cow1 is indeed cow2, and might even be horse3?
>
Howzabout english?
"The energy in a system is equal to it mass multiplied by the square of the spped of light." And of course about 5000 other living and dead languages.
>
>- Wade
>
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