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Language does not operate on the basis of what the speaker _wants_ it to mean.
by Fellshard 8y ago
Language does not operate on the basis of what the speaker _wants_ it to mean.
- pvg 8y agoI don't understand what ghost windmill you are tilting at here. At all. It certainly doesn't seem to be anything I've actually said.
- Fellshard 8y agoI have a pretty personal beef with the idea that language can simply be contorted to supposedly mean whatever someone feels like it should mean, as heading down that road is basically abandoning meaning and communication altogether, and is wholly incoherent.
- pvg 8y agoYeah but... I didn't say any of that.
- kbutler 8y ago> It's a silly definition, not what I want it to mean. You wrote this intending to say, "I'm saying the dictionary definition is silly, not that bigotry should mean what I want it to mean." Instead, the sentence says, "The dictionary definition is silly, [because it's] not what I want it to mean."
- Fellshard 8y agoThat's fair, I likely misinterpreted it that way.