[lit-ideas] Re: Must the World Be Illiterate? (Was: Must the Word be Literate?
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:13:30 +0900
Ah, what joy! JL returns, a literati turn of events for lit-ideas.
John
On 10/13/07, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>
> McCreery writes of
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> >the search for a perfect language extends is characteristic
> >of modern philosophy from Leibniz to the early Wittgenstein (the one
> >who wrote the Tractatus).
>
> -- and a very literate book, it is too, unlike his later (the 'later
> Wittgenstein') who later wrote the rather illiterate "Philosophical
> Investigations" (in German outbursts to his amanuensis, Mrs. Geach).
>
> Geary says that yes, the word must be literate.
>
> I agree, 'literate' is from 'letter' and letters have representations in
> phonic terms. There is no way of conceiving a word that can not be rendered
> _literate_. On the other hand Third-World sociologists keep talking of how
> illiterate the Third World is getting. By which they mean that they
> misspell.
>
> In Spanish, 'illiteracy" translates as 'alfabetismo' (knowing your ABC),
> which simplified the world wonders for Eva Peron.
>
> Regards,
>
> J. L.
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