Talking to a friend // Roman Jakobson and phenomenology

[paulhope]

There are a lot of things I've wanted to tell you all over the past week, but I've been distracted by a lot of things. I think am less dense than the water above me; I keep buoying up higher

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[tcpip]

This morning, my first words were something like, "Is verb nominalization universal to all languages?" "Yes," he said. And it begins again.

Damn, what a great way to start a day. Add a line and a martini and I'd adopt that as a permanent lifestyle.

On topic however this line of reasoning does have a great deal of validity. A language provides a set of shared symbolic values within a cultural group. Subcultures have their own affinity with members and thus their own subset of shared symbolic values. In intense friendships..

Wel, yes. You're right.

[doclabyrinth]

stop killing puppies! they're cute, and css is the future, and the future is now.

[vaguelyweird]

face hurts...

[paulhope]

Why face?

[vaguelyweird]

from reading your thing

[paulhope]

But why face? I don't understand. Head, maybe. Eyes, maybe. Face?