comment on a post of mine own

[iteonaas]

i think we've all learned a thing or two about language. ive always believed that language was used to define items and help people understand abstract concepts. it's interesting that language itself has been turnedinto an abstract concept, open to interpretation. as tom pointed out, campbell and matt have a basic disagreement over the use of

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[dickiehertz]

pssssshhh! yeah, it was easy for you to be the mean--broon doesn't want you murdered via some knife wielding monkey with poison fucking tacos!

[legend_of_time]

OKAY OKAY, so i might seem like the balding guy in the bar from good will hunting but in intro to sociology we ahve learned that language or better yet the meaning of words is based upon the meaning we apply to it. crazy people can do all sorts of things based on that. funny short story when they taught the chimp sign language she ended up calling mean monkeys or scientists who didnt do what she wanted dirty-monkey or dirty-scientist. the word dirty was used for her to describe her soiled diaper so dirty basically equelled shit for her.

Now cory i must ask you two things
1. what color is the air?
2. What color is the grass?

reluctantly i bet you'll say green and pink (respectively) if you remember the movie about the angry black man who didnt want to follow the rules of the "white" world.

now if you'll excuse me i'm going to go watch the tennis scratch that baseball game in my dorm room hall way. one of u guys should stay a weekend.

[legend_of_time]

sorry golf is down there too

i remember demarco's movie

[iteonaas]

that's the point im trying to make though. you can't just arbitrarily change words' meanings, at least without making a valid excuse or some reason: like shakespeare or bush

it doesn't matter if you don't want to follow the rules, you just have to remember that when you give up the power to fight, you have no more say

[fatandlost]

It depends.

Whether you believe

A. Thought dictates language

OR the inverse

B. Language dictates thought

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