On 04/06/12 17:17, Jim Devine wrote:
> Contesting the common-sense, popular, or received meanings of any word
> is not worth the effort. It's just the standard and pointless academic
> game of arguing about the meanings of words ("You're using the word
> 'sabotage' incorrectly; what 'sabotage' REALLY means (as some
> authority figure tells us) is that...")Contesting the contestation of words is just the standard and pointless academic game of...bla bla.. When bending things, such as words, they sometimes break and entirely new meanings, pespectives and insights can appear and you find yourself outside of the box -- but of course, academics can't breathe in that atmosphere, it's too far from their comfort zone mind/wordbendingly yours, m _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
