From:	MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [OT] Nuances of Language
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 12:58:02 -0400

Once upon a time, David Buehrer wrote;

>But isn't language used to symbolically represent a world that's
>perceived abstractly?

No, "Language is a virus from outer space" - Laurie Anderson

&
>It's a wonder we can communicate at all :)

A sampled(?) quote from EBN-OZN's AEIOU sometimes Y ?


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"When _I_ use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful
tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
-Through the Looking Glass

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