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From: dcs2e@darwin.clas.virginia.edu (David Swanson)
Subject: Re: Languages: Hard, Harder, Hardest
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In article <4tmprg$39k@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
matts2@ix.netcom.com (Matt Silberstein) writes:

> I am also amused that you dismiss the translation as just "to accomplish
> communication". What do you think language if for? Communication seems
> to be a major role for language.

To quote from "The Dead Poets Society," language is to woo women.  One
can COMMUNICATE with one's face or one's hands, for godsake.  One can
even do a lot with one's face, hands, etc., with women, but until one
says "you're beautiful," or words to such effect, one is drifting
through a pretechnological age.


David

I got friends in low places
where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases
my blues away
I'm not much on social graces
Think I'll head on down to the oasis
I got friends in low places
