Can't you see that the statement was ironic / metaphorical , or do I have
to draw it _
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:49 AM, John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A private matter? Are you the only speaker of this idiolect?
John
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Nah, syntax hasn't much to do with logic. Whether I put the subject
before the verb, or after it, and what I do with the propositional phrase,
is a private matter.
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Redacted sender Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx for
DMARC <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In a message dated 5/14/2015 7:05:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes:
group where there is some philosophical discussion - not too profound.
The idea of 'profound' is interesting. It is a Latinism. The correlative
Anglo-Saxonism is "deep". Witters (or Ludwig Wittgenstein if you mustn't)
would find Chomsky's distinction between surface and deep grammar (the
deep-surface distinction) not too profound philosophically, but then
Chomsky never
said he was a philosoopher.
O. T. O. H., by depth grammar, Wittgensteinians mean 'logical form'; only
it sounds better.
This philosopher I live prefers the shallow berths of the seas of lingo,
though!
Cheers,
Speranza
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