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Originally posted by wrathchild
reply to post by primus 2012
damn you....posted my point while I was editing mine for stupidity and second grade spelling!
I must say I agree with you sir!
Originally posted by wrathchild
the word "thread"....has many meanings..but 20 yrs ago nobody would know what it means in the form we use it here....add another 1000 yrs...this language..the one we use now will be complete gibberish
no conspiracy..just evolution.
Originally posted by LordBucket
reply to post by IandEye
running thread an a lie zing!
You may be anal-izing too much.
Originally posted by zaiger
reply to post by IandEye
yea and Iandeye sounds like lie and kind of sounds like waste-of-time. Did compund words change into crap you make up or something?
[edit on 10-6-2010 by zaiger]
Originally posted by Ian McLean
reply to post by zaiger
I think the point the OP is implying is that some words or phrases in the English language are phonetically identically to other words or phrases, and their meaning is semantically opposite, or alternate to the contextual meaning. This implies a possible 'covert channel' of meaning, that can be encoded into spoken words. And, since we often sub vocalize when we read, into written words. So what? Well, our conscious mind quickly recognizes the overt meaning, and fixates on that. But in several models of how the brain works, there is implied several disjoint functional-processing units. Certainly, we don't specifically and consciously choose what meaning to associate. That implies that this happens 'beneath the surface'. If that's so, what else happens beneath the surface? Could some level of emotive or associative correlation happen there, too? It's certainly possible. If so, we should pay attention to the alternate phonetic meaning that words and phrases have, because they may in some (perhaps less filterable!) way be significant to us.
almost as much a waste of time as reading one of your posts perhaps?
just for your sake im going to keep this thread open after all.
it seems narrowmindedness is an all-too-common disease on the internet.
scared little boys who cant control the world come here to try and control others. weak and ignorant.