On Oct 2, 2:43 pm, Sam Carana <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great post, always good to hear from you.
>
> Let me add that eh some .... seemingly meaningless fragments of ..
> text, like, eehr, mmmm, are also . . . .much underrated.
>
> Cheers!
> Sam Carana
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:07 PM, einseele <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This group is lately almost silent
> > My subject is linguistics, so I will take advantage of this silence to
> > point the obvious, which is usually not so clear.
>
> > When talking, in any language, there is always a silent portion/
> > segment, words, letters, sentences, need that silence to identify
> > itselves.
>
> > Also when we write. Silence when we write is represented by "empty"
> > space.
>
> > There is empty space in all cases, or silence. Being perhaps the most
> > important component of language.
>
> > Even if I write:
>
> > thisgroupislatelyalmostsilentmysubjectislinguisticssoiwilltakeadvantageofth
> > issilencetopointtheobviouswhichisusuallynotsoclear
>
> > Even so, to convey any meaning the reader will add "missing" "empty"
> > space to the above, which is the first sentence of this post.
>
> > Silence, empty space, or whatever instance this represents, conveys
> > meaning. It is not null, but empty. This means that in language,
> > emptiness is treated the same way as any positive sign.
>
> > As in computer science as well, where the sign "0" represents the
> > absence of a material dot.
> > Binary systems need 2 values and curiously, the first is "0"
>
> > That absence has no lesser status that any other sign, and more than
> > that is needed as part of the system.
>
> > If this is valid to language, and there are a lot of languages (also
> > not human), why should be any different in Physics, or Nature, or
> > Chemistry, whatever.
>
> > It is hard to see out there knowledge approaches talking about
> > emptiness in this sense, there are examples of course. Poetry for
> > instance, and many other.
>
> > rgds
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