Very thought-provoking and poetic item by James Harbeck in his *Sesquiotica*blog today: *binder, bind, bound* http://sesquiotic.wordpress.com/author/sesquiotic/ The word is not the thing, and the map is not the territory, but ... weoften act like they are. Reminds me of General Semantics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics> I knew him when he was just a bird colonel. Shades of Alfred Korzybski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski and S. I. Hayakawa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_I._Hayakawa Ciao, Izzy ************************************** ** Join ETNI on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/31737970668/ ** ETNI Blog and Poll http://ask-etni.blogspot.co.il/ ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org ** post to ETNI List - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** help - ask@xxxxxxxx ***************************************