Human Language And Dolphin Movement Patterns ???

“Patterns of dolphin behaviour at the surface obey the same law of brevity as human language, with both seeking out the simplest and most efficient codes”, Ramón Ferrer i Cancho, co-author of the study published in the journal Complexity and a researcher in the Department of Languages and IT Systems at the UPC, tells SINC. [...]

Lingering

The pages in Proust’s long novel describing a first-ever telephone call are often admired for their rare sensitivity to the experience of a new technology. The narrator is speaking, across the miles of cable, to his grandmother. More than speak, he listens. The telephone separates previously united aspects of his grandmother—her voice and physical presence—and [...]

Speaking And Hearing

Nuance is not a question of sensitivity. It is dependent upon the private vocabulary of life experience. A speaker’s success is in stimulation, not communication.
Whatever I may hope to say in a literal way may be perfectly understood as instructive and with productive yields. But the nuances, the references I may wish to subtly influence [...]

The Naming Of Things

A man once told me that he had dated the daughter of Quincy Jones. I didn’t know what meaning that had.
We have these florescent green spiders here that sometimes group their front legs together and look like they have pinchers. I call them neon crabs and people believe me. What?

Everyone knows that tomorrow will herald [...]

What Does It Mean?

Bumper Sticker:
SMILE GOD LOVE’S YOU

George Lakoff: How the far right have used Cognitive Framing to hijack politics « How good is that?

Gobbledygook of Marketing

A favorite trick is to take the language that the product manager provides, go into Microsoft Word’s find-and-replace mode, substitute the word “solution” for “product,” and then slather the whole thing with superlative-laden, jargon-sprinkled hype. By just decreeing through an electronic word substitution that “our product” is “your solution,” these companies effectively deprive themselves of [...]

Unwording The World

“According to the APSSP, the results of the audit are to be discussed with the SM (or the ASM if SM not present) and immediately communicated by the DM to the DVP, DAS and VP/DSO (APG HQ) via e-mail.”
I quote that line only for entertainment since it does not have much meaning for me.
Initialism or [...]