This makes sense. :) 2 Cent coins are awesome, I miss them. I'm a bit confused about "altering language does nothing to alter the concepts those words represent", though. Do you mean that if you give a word an additional meaning in a slang sense, like "Sick" to mean "awesome" for example, it still carries its original meaning and you have to depend on context to tell which meaning is intended? As in if someone said "That is fully sick" you would assume they mean "that is really awesome" instead of "that is really unwell" even though "unwell" is the traditional/more common use of the word? Or do you mean something else? I am sensing that your linguistics xp points have beaten me on this one.
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Date: 2008-04-09 05:05 am (UTC)I'm a bit confused about "altering language does nothing to alter the concepts those words represent", though. Do you mean that if you give a word an additional meaning in a slang sense, like "Sick" to mean "awesome" for example, it still carries its original meaning and you have to depend on context to tell which meaning is intended? As in if someone said "That is fully sick" you would assume they mean "that is really awesome" instead of "that is really unwell" even though "unwell" is the traditional/more common use of the word?
Or do you mean something else? I am sensing that your linguistics xp points have beaten me on this one.
(Thankyou!! :D :D)