On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:08:41PM -0500, Robert LeChevalier wrote:
> At 10:50 AM 3/13/03 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >> Instead of looking at the differences, you might look at the
> >> similarities.
> >
> >*WHAT* similarities?!? Nerves collect data, collate it, and push it to
> >other things *just* *like* *them*.
[...]
> >Yes, some of that was hyperbole, but far from all of it.
> >
> >And you wonder why I'm concerned about polysemy in this case. Yeesh.
>
> There is no polysemy. Polysemy in natural language usually comes about
> when words evolve in multiple directions and the original connection
> between them is lost or forgotten. Keepiong gismu broad in meaning and
> using lujvo to do the evolved meanings should prevent much polysemy.
If nirna can mean both a phone and an optic cable, it is clearly
polysemous.
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Jordan DeLong - fracture@allusion.net
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