[lit-ideas] Fw: Ordinary Language

  • From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:02:26 -0800 (PST)

By the time this message reaches you, I will probably be dead of natural causes.




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From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: [lit-ideas] Ordinary Language 
 

Well, I am pretty sure that Ordinary Language Philosophy has kept its innocence 
by being prudently limited to ordinary English, and not venturing into other 
languages which also have their ordinary and non-ordinary styles.

O.K.


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 From: "Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx" <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx>
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:55 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Ordinary Language 
 
Grice and Ordinary Language -- 

PHILOSOPHY, of course -- for who cares for ordinary language AS SUCH -- vs. 
Ordinary English. 

In a message dated 2/21/2013 11:28:19 A.M. UTC-02,  
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
These are ordinary English words that the  law does not allow me to help 
you with, beyond the written directions [he had  already given them]”." 

I once was reading a Loeb Latin volume
 (Cicero) and came across the phrase, 
'extraordinary' and 'ordinary' as opposed to language, which fascinated  
me.

It seems this is something that should have interested Grice.

While Grice is referred to, as Hart is, as "ordinary language" philosophers 
-- as per subject line in McEvoy's post, the point about 'ordinariness' is 
never  actually made.

Less so about _ENGLISH_. It's ordinary-language, never ordinary  English.

In this case, the non-philosophical basis is further emphasised:  "ordinary 
English WORDS": 'reasonable' and 'doubt'.

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Things to consider

Cheers,

Speranza



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