04-09-2017, 12:38 AM
Semiotics (Guess That Makes Him an Elephant)
Nothing transforms quicker than words in sequence
meaning unfolds into its opposition
from dismissive (branding her cheap) to praising,
“Cheap at the price.”
Nor is sudden spinning of meaning only
brought about by adding more words. A simple
lifted eyebrow’s irony signal twists all:
did she say “Perfect?” Perfect...
So it is not only in Japanese and
German that the listener must await the
final word to learn what the sentence meant. No
sentence rests ‘til it’s over.
Sometimes, rarely, sentences’ incompleteness
makes their meaning. Think of the general who
cheered his troops by shouting, “They couldn’t hit an
elephant at this dist...”
Nothing transforms quicker than words in sequence
meaning unfolds into its opposition
from dismissive (branding her cheap) to praising,
“Cheap at the price.”
Nor is sudden spinning of meaning only
brought about by adding more words. A simple
lifted eyebrow’s irony signal twists all:
did she say “Perfect?” Perfect...
So it is not only in Japanese and
German that the listener must await the
final word to learn what the sentence meant. No
sentence rests ‘til it’s over.
Sometimes, rarely, sentences’ incompleteness
makes their meaning. Think of the general who
cheered his troops by shouting, “They couldn’t hit an
elephant at this dist...”
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