Linguistic Utopia :: John QUIJADA's invented language strives to be maximally precise and very concise, The New Yorker (2012) - http://www.newyorker.com/magazin...
Sep 17, 2014
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Utterly amazing from a DMV guy... worth reading if you are interested in analytical philosophy: what the practice of early Wittgenstein might mean in a "conventional" language, to the implications of the private language argument, then back to trying to express the ineffable in ordinary experience. For gaps in meanings, along the way we get to actually encounter Lakoff at his Berkeley home: metaphor is in the idea and can't be wished away with grammar (ontology embedded in language as revealed by the taxonomy behind word units). [Thanks @maitani for showing me this article :-]
- Adriano
Even before _Philosophical Investigations_, Wittgenstein had thought about the verification problem of whether a mentioned color in a conversation was in fact the same to participants, cf. Blue and Brown notebooks. (Only the rotational shift in their color wheels needs to be consistent during the conversation :-) -- but more generally see "trippy" https://www.quora.com/What-ar... So, so much for conciseness, and what were we talking about?
- Adriano