[lit-ideas] Tarski on eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
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eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
From © Michael Quinion 1996-2015, World Wide Words,
http://www.worldwidewords.org.
Eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
"This," Quinion notes, "appears ... in modern collections of exotic and
unfamiliar words."
Apparently,
eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
"has never appeared anywhere in print as a serious word", where 'serious'
is Griceian.
"We know about it," Quinion adds, where 'knows' is Getterian, "solely
because of the folklorist L. Pound.
Pound defines
eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
as “extra good or fine” and notes, in Dialect Notes, that the expression
has been brought from western Oregon by the unnamed person who contributed
it.
The problem is Tarskian rather than properly Griceian.
An expression, such as
eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
whatever Pound says, has no meaning unless it's part of some 'use' (to use
Wittgensteinian parlance). In this case, a relevant utterance (alla Tarski,
""Snow is white" is true iff snow is white"") would be
That's eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious.
-- e.g. Popper thus referring to a theorem by Einstein, or some vintage
Leithaberg, a well-known Austrian wine.
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