I'll second that. Where?
What strikes me writing in English is how the language is abused and used by
the world of business - and it is on a full scale imperialistic charge.
Large numbers of languages are becoming extinct each year and with each one
going we lose something, an angle on the world.
Does anyone else feel uncomfortable sometimes using this language?
At the same time this is a factor in why native speakers of English have
tripled to 400 million this century and a further 100 mill now have English
as a second language - you'd think that, with those numbers, being an artist
using this langauge would find an audience and be a profitable business.
Where?
Wittgenstein compared language to 'an ancient city: a maze of little streets
and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from
various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with
straight regular streets and uniform houses.' Philosophical Investigations,
para 18 - but what now - suburbia?
Cheers John Bennett
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 12:43 PM
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> >From: "Roddy Lumsden" <[log in to unmask]>
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> >Sure, but it's that losing battle that's currently paying my bills.
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> >Roddy
> >
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> My gawd, you get paid actual money for it? Where do I submit?
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