Today, I noticed that I had an inexplicable time uttering a full sentence when trying to ask my seminary professor some questions after class. The grammar of my sentences was pragmatic: use short KEYWORD phrases until professor knods + begins answering. Afterwards I reflected upon my speech-act and realized what is happening: my philosophy of speech is becoming Goooooglized! We must do something to keep ourselves from becoming irresponsible speakers. Within generation I predict global transformation in speech patterns towards KEYWORD oriented grammar, placing communication burden on HEARER rather than SPEAKER. To save our SPEECH from degenerating into KEYWORDS, we must make every effort to speak complete thought FORMS. In QUERY jargon, everything must be irreducible <literal>: guard all SPEECH "as if completely surrounded with quotations." Otherwise, start LOSING frequent WORDS. MUST+ACT+BEFORE+TOO+LATE
Posted by Eric Pyle at February 22, 2005 11:40 PM
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Passing Thoughts
I could be wrong, but I believe Hebrew places a burden upon the listener. No vowel pointing in modern hebrew, limited verb tenses, and a focus on word roots. What do you think?
Posted by: Andy | February 25, 2005 9:58 AM