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mhf4421@usl.edu (Flynn Matthew H) writes:

>De Saussare goes into this to some depth.  He was a Linguist, and had
>definitely seen the OED.  I'm not denying philology here--I know that many
>words spring out of other words and seem to have logical reasons for what they
>mean.  Language is a code, and it necessarily has some structure,  but there is
>no real substantial connection between that code and what it represents other 
>than our generally accepted associations. 

    A good question would be whether what the language represents even exists...


    Dmitry Serebrennikov                         dmitry@ucsee.Berkeley.Edu
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