On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 11:25:22AM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > > Come on, the only possible conclusion of this line of reasoning is > > that communication between two people is impossible. > > Not at all. Humans communicated quite successfully long before > dictionaries or grammarians came about. A large portion of one's > vocabulary is learned through a mixture of (1) having heard the word > before, (2) context, and (3) similarity to / decomposition into other > words. A vast portion of one's vocabulary was *not* learned by running > for a dictionary or asking a passing linguist. Uhh... what are you talking about? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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