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Originally posted by ChessPraxisWords are reassuring, menacing, factual, erroneous, informative, misleading, inspiring, maddening,
Often times what one says and one means can be two different things. It depends on accuracy of wording, and the interpretation of the listener.
plain, fancy, imprecise, comforting, clunky and poetic. The best words are the ones that become songs.
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Originally posted by ChessPraxisI think that quite often, what we hear is what we want to hear. When emotions are involved, it is difficult to be objective - expectations, mood, experience matter a great deal.
Often times what one says and one means can be two different things. It depends on accuracy of wording, and the interpretation of the listener.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyGrampy Bobby,
Please muster the virile objectivity to read the op once again for the first time. It simply suggests that all languages (whether ancient and no longer in use or contemporary and used in most corners of the civilized world) become the unique repositories of basic and complex thought, and perpetuate the history of those for whom it functioned as mother tongue.
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I'm using this thread to express a wish that you would consider using words that are easier to understand for players, who don't have English as their first language, such as me, for instance. Many posts are lost to me as I fail to understand what you mean. I hope you don't mind me bringing this up.
Originally posted by lolofHello Lolof! I was wondering why you haven't moved in 121 days? Are you here just for the forums?
Grampy Bobby,
I'm using this thread to express a wish that you would consider using words that are easier to understand for players, who don't have English as their first language, such as me, for instance. Many posts are lost to me as I fail to understand what you mean. I hope you don't mind me bringing this up.
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Originally posted by huckleberryhoundLanguage is "smart" in that it seems to have unlimited capacity to accurately absorb, reflect and retain the collective history of thought and action, pristine or sophisticated. Some learn more than others from the word formations used by themselves and those in their periphery each day. Any so foolish as to think they can go it alone and scorn the insights of others are fools.
Well, if language was so smart, we'd all know what you meant...right?
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Originally posted by ChessPraxisFor sure, CP. I'm reasonably sure this is why we all use judgement or diplomacy with certain people to imply an answer without really answering (as often occurs between doctors and patients); use specialized code words to playfully reverse the literal meaning of the words we type or say (as when a lady says 'no' to a man she finds fatally attractive); use great deference and kid glove treatment (with young children, the infirm and frail); and use utmost care in the interest of privacy and confidentiality (when info is communicated strictly on the basis of need to know).
Often times what one says and one means can be two different things. It depends on accuracy of wording, and the interpretation of the listener.
Let's face it head on, we're all babes in the woods when it comes to grasping language by the short hairs.
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Originally posted by rookie54Great word, Rookie (aka RHP Poet Lariat)... one of those
an intentional misdirection???
why, no, not now, not ever!!!
it cain't be the poster that's wise,
tis the language itself that's clever...
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ps, grampy, yer op iz hogwash...
words for which there really isn't an adequate synonym.
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Originally posted by lolofGreat point, lolof. Use of language is seldom a one dimensional affair. Two or more human beings with varying capacities
I think that quite often, what we hear is what we want to hear. When emotions are involved, it is difficult to be objective - expectations, mood, experience matter a great deal.
and agendas are often involved. Courtroom scene in which the judge announces the jury's verdict may be an exception.
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