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<p>[QUOTE="Myoxo, post: 14137, member: 271"]</p><p>"The door is over there."</p><p>That can be a polite and helpful direction to a somewhat lost and confused person. Or it can be a pretty icy instruction to get the fuck out of your home. I'll argue that in the former case, only the topmost layer, the words themselves, are relevant. In the other? You could probably write a novel around those five words. Similarly, what do you communicate when you post the idea that colorless green ideas are furiously asleep? All the words are, by themselves, contradictions. Could we construct a context where it makes sense? Well, you already have: This is a classic from Chomsky, and it's been debated up and down on various nachspielen full of pretentious academics for two generations. As such, you just put me 15 years back in time. I could <em>smell</em> that sentence due to all the associated memories. Again, you could probably write a novel around all the associated social interactions. In a way, that particular statement is a meme.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Myoxo, post: 14137, member: 271"] "The door is over there." That can be a polite and helpful direction to a somewhat lost and confused person. Or it can be a pretty icy instruction to get the fuck out of your home. I'll argue that in the former case, only the topmost layer, the words themselves, are relevant. In the other? You could probably write a novel around those five words. Similarly, what do you communicate when you post the idea that colorless green ideas are furiously asleep? All the words are, by themselves, contradictions. Could we construct a context where it makes sense? Well, you already have: This is a classic from Chomsky, and it's been debated up and down on various nachspielen full of pretentious academics for two generations. As such, you just put me 15 years back in time. I could [I]smell[/I] that sentence due to all the associated memories. Again, you could probably write a novel around all the associated social interactions. In a way, that particular statement is a meme. [/QUOTE]
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