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Can you go a little further into this? I want to know how you equate normal conversation to advertisement, because to me that seems like the linguistics versio
by BizarroLand 3y ago
Can you go a little further into this?
I want to know how you equate normal conversation to advertisement, because to me that seems like the linguistics version of moral relativism.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThe dictionary definition of advertising, according to the OED excluding obsolete and rare usages, is: " Verb 3. transitive. To give notice of (something); to make generally known. 4. a. transitive. To make generally known by means of an announcement in a public medium; spec. (a) to publish information about (a person (now rare), thing, circumstance, or event) so as to attract public attention; (b) to describe or present (a product, service, or the like) in order to promote sales. Frequently with by, in, on the medium specified (as a journal, radio, television, etc.). (Now the most common sense.) b. intransitive. To publicize or promote something in this way. Noun 2. a. The action or process of advertise v. 4; publication of an announcement in a public medium; (concrete) the result of this; advertisements collectively. Cf. self-advertising n. at self- prefix 1b(b). b. The activity, trade, occupation, or profession of advertising or producing advertisements, now typically for a commercial product or service. "
- BizarroLand 3y agoI would argue that just because something fits into the definition doesn't mean the thing is what the definition claims it is. When Plato gave the definition of man as "featherless bipeds", Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man"