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. [...]

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Who is What and What is Who, and Always the Twain Shall Meet

HvB spends considerable time on the irreducible distinction between essence and existence. In short, “the attempt to express even in the barest terms that something is cannot be made without stating what it is.” It seems that for the subject, the most basic complementarity is between isness and whatness — without which there could not [...]

Why Should I Care About God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins

He coined the sci-fi sounding words “inscape” and “intress” to describe his poetic goals. “Inscape” is the unique inner landscape of any thing on earth. He believed that to show this inner landscape, through words, was to show God. “Instress” is the glue that holds the “inscape” together. For Hopkins, it was another way of [...]

Superlative Language In Marketing

Allegory:  We are having a “Yard Sale” at my parent’s house and among the items is a case of plain white coffee cups along with several other items left from a small shop they used to own. I place some cups out on a table and put a $.25 tag on them. Some others I [...]