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If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
-
If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
-
Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
-
stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
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If I know anything about computer languages it might be considered a computer programming language! Human Languages aren’t good in general. Many humans have no deterministic parsers or semantic mappings. Any attempt to give rules to human language is only an approximation to something which is somewhat fluid to begin with. Dictionaries don’t come first; the use of the words just is and lexicographers just try to capture meanings as well as they can.
As a vocabulary, people will use words that work for them, and sometimes adopt others they hear. Meanings are in peoples heads and we can only access those meanings through mapping an unshared (non-telepathic) cognitive situation to sound streams. This leads to the slightest drift of meaning around a sound sequence (word) or of a word. If the sounds of two different sounds change, how
can they be divided according to their frequency? Are all just attempts?
- denotative meaning – a formulation of semantics in an unambiguous, non-vague, consistent and complete logical language.
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Connotative meaning – connections, collocations, contexts, vague feelings of nearby-ness,,..
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stipulative definition – a meaning is assigned (‘stipulated’) for a given sound sequence
- usage definition – a given sound sequence is used
Human language only follows ‘usage’ definitions. How is mathematical, sciences and technology a good vocabulary? Someone says “from now on, ‘blurp’ means ‘take an allen wrench at 45 degrees from the plane but matching the hex hole and twist counter-clockwise’…” A word ‘blurp’ has that stipulated meaning, and if someone uses ‘blurp’ for ’30 degrees’ or on phillips sockets, etc, then they are using the word ‘blurp’ wrong.
Take for example ‘pail’ and ‘bucket’. What does the word mean and how do they mean? What are some similar mechanical objects, open on the other end of a cylindrical cylindrical receptacle, that open on the upper hand or by opening on the other end, that actually have the same “receptacle” as a non cylindrical object?
Can two different sequences of sound have the same denotative value? Is stipulative definition easy? Also fairly easy (as in the case of a pail and bucket) when there is a simple easily verifiable statement. I love everything about this world.. just sometimes… it’s weird what people leave out.. Though that could be subtle or nominative, there are others that should be left out in a denotative definition. While the connotations are often left out of the equation, they’re always left out.
It is extremely difficult in usage definitions because there are so many different contexts that words can appear in that probability wise it is unlikely.
Are there any exact synonyms in German?
In technical English there certainly are (these might be called analytic a priori truths)… but you know, I just give a speech above about stipulative definitions, but even there there is semantic drift. Even in maths, the terminology changes because we’re human and even technical terms lose their edge, get associated with some things rather than others. If you could give me a simple example, that I know that you had to learn not to explain too much and he ‘just tried’.
How can I understand a non technical language?
In Chinese society, if X is an exact synonym of Y, how do you explain the same word? That is why we are so ignorant of every word that we use. How to make an inner connection between a word and a picture, which is the same (tackle and ‘pail’ are identical! Except I think of a pail as never being made out of wood’)
So I reallys ask Why
are there no exact synonyms?
Do
- not rely on the particular features of English here, because this are primarily about the culture and culture that these people live in? This could easily be asked on Linguistics. What is philosophy? Although
- there are some perfectly good duplicates that you could make with this title, the title is very specific and I can’t find any response elsewhere here on ELU that addresses this directly.
What’s your opinion about human rights?
- 737714 views
- 33 answers
- 272126 votes
