[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:08:06 -0230
Language is surely such that if there is as yet no word for P, but there should
be a word for P, then there eventually will be a word for P.
I guess it follows that any "ideal" natural language would bear all the words we
are fated to come to have as a species. (Excluding certain words uttered by Mike
G, of course.) I think Charles Saunders Pierce may have said something like
that.... even though, to the best of my knowledge, Chuck never met Mike G.
Walter O.
Quoting Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> WO:
> > P.S. Is "wafting" a word?
>
> See there how the withies of the willow trees waft so gently in the
> whispering breeze.
>
> Who cares if there's such a word -- there SHOULD BE!
> That's the difference between you and me. : )
>
> Mike Geary
> whiffling my life away in Memphis
>
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