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Politicians, rappers, trek heads and drug companies go out of their way to coin new words. They combine two different roots, make it plural and WHAM!! a new word!
The book to end all words would have a dedicated meaning for all the parts of words. They would be arranged in every order possible so no
other words could be created. Then dedicated meanings would be spelled out in every possible fashion thus completing language and all new words. Then when the rapping politician receiving kickbacks from the pharmaceuticals industry tries to expound on his newly vernacular, someone in his audience can hold up the book and correct him/her.
"The rapping politician"
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118798
[calum, May 06 2002]
The Nine Billion Names of God
http://www.geocitie...ces/namesofgod.html
Wow. The entire short story by Arthur C. Clarke. Posting it on a Geocities site *can't* be legal. [bristolz, May 06 2002]
Evilbunny
http://www.geocities.com/aicase
Has anyone ever read Finnegan's Wake? [Evilbunny, Oct 04 2004]
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The drug companies would rush to patent all the new words and earn royalties on their use. |
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This book would be the book to end all forests. |
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The OED has 291,500 entries, and consumes 21,730 pages. You work out how many pages it would take for 291,500 factorial entries. |
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Besides, this concept is partially baked by the German language. |
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...and what a beautiful langauge it is. |
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The Nine Billion Names of God |
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There are nine billion ways to take the name of the Lord in vain? Jesus Christ! |
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If you were shooting, [brettjs] not only would you have missed the target but the backstop as well and perhaps the entire far end of the range. |
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Mapping the Human Phonome? |
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Thank's for the link, bris. He did some good work, didn't he? |
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True. I shouldn't use past tense. I've just bought "Greetings, Carbon-based Bipeds" |
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Bristolz-
The Nine million names of god was an Incredible idea, But was the calculation off? The 3 letter in succession rule throws everything off so AAAAAAAAA can not exist, nor does AAAA, or AAABAAAAB for example. I dont come up with that many names. |
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Eight million, nine hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred ninety-eight to go. |
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You're only off by three orders of magnitude, [brettjs]. That'd be eight billion, nine hundred ninety nine million, nine hundred and ninety nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety eight. |
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Such an idea could only be proposed by someone who has absolutely no concept of the dynamics of language. And [beauxeault] above is as wrong as the author. Ending all forests is not the problem with this idea. The evolution of language is constant. Fishbonerized. Flibberfishybonioned. Ichthyoskeletonized. |
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(Globalfishead), yes, that would be a, Bla Bla Bla an the concept Icthyoskeletonized. I see you as a skeleton too.
Would not that be better said as distalocularskeletation, or "Sakana-ho-hone, Sensei?" I guess I do have a good grasp on language. |
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The evolution of language does exist, and in fact meters the ability for old and cross-referenced words to take on new meanings. But in fact new parts of speech do not change and are as solid as the core of human intelligence stemming from the experience that they are based on, as is the foundation of this idea and only change as new ideas are formed.
Auto - Yes, dedicated meaning
Automatic - Yes, dedicated meaning
Automanic – No meaning but could have one. Self-excited, or car-weird!
No meaning yet, unless you speak some form of bones that the rest of the world don’t.
but that is not evolution, it is finishing.
So would new sounds, if you had the ability to create them. |
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em-tae, if you really need to be rude to someone, why not 'phone Arthur C Clarke himself? He likes in Sri Lanka, so he's likely to stand out in the local telephone book like a sore thumb with a name like that. |
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He's bound to have a view on the evolution of languages, being the world's most famous polymath. |
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I'm sure he'd be only too willing to take your call when he hears that you're a halfbaker. |
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By the way, are you deliberately mixing the syntax of another language with that of English? Is that to demonstrate your good grasp of other languages? |
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[bz]: <blushes> I figured, "Hey, those numbers at the end are the least significant. Might as well toss 'em." |
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The problem is that it was the most significant numbers you tossed. |
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(Hence the irony stemming from the dual meaning of "end" in this case) |
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//Politicians, rappers, trek heads and drug companies//
Coincidentally, perhaps the four most annoying groups of people. |
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Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel." The library in this story contains all possible combinations of letters and therefore contains all books that have ever been and ever will be written. The library is infinite and, to its inhabitants, indistinguishable from the universe. |
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