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All true language
is incomprehensible,
Like the chatter
of a beggar's teeth.
This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
Look at it talking to you.
So this is the subterranean life.
If it can't be conjugated onto us, what good is it?
...
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I
did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration or a ...
If the warmth of her Language could affect the Body it might
be worth reading in this weather.
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
To summarize the contentions of this paper then. Firstly, the phrase 'the meaning of a word' is a spurious phrase. Secondly and co ...
I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word.' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but ...
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than ...
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called 'vague.'
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