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Old Mar 16, 2007, 03:26 am   #11 (permalink) (top)
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This is a rather ridiculous equivalence, in my mind. Language does not precede the world, nor makes it, it defines it's multiple differentiations in function. A chair, like it or not, no matter WHAT language you use, can be sat on comfortably while a 10 foot tall spike on which you've been thrown from 50 onto feet cannot.
This is one of the funnies frigging sentences I've ever read.


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