Quotes About Semantics

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

My for example is woofs.

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

A cow is a cow even if you call it beef.

To name the cat is, if you like, to make it into a non-cat, a cat that has ceased to exist, has ceased to be a living cat, but this does not mean one is making it into a dog, or even a non-dog.

Some think that the painting does not so much express the meaning as the meaning impregnates the painting.

Variations in Ianguage, which at first appear to support the skeptic, are ultimately the proof of its meaning, since words would not change in meaning unless they were trying to say something.

The possibility of a universal grammar thus remains problematic, since language is made up of significations in the state of being born. This is the case because language is in movement and is not fixed.

I think back to my dream of the boy, because in it I find solace. I like that word. I'm going to make it my word of the year. There is just something about that boy that makes me feel like I belong. Belong. Long to be . Weird word, but semantics aside, it is up there with solace .

Old English 'æppel' used to mean any kind of fruit.

Love without freewill is semantics holding no intrinsic value.

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

At their first meeting, she handed George a reading list made up of French and German philosophers. When George settled down to read these texts, he discovered something astonishing: the meaning of each word was clear and the meaning of sentences baffled. Insignificant yet crucial words like 'however' and 'which'- words whose meaning was surely beyond dispute - had been deployed in ways that made no sense.

Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.

A single letter is useless by itself. But a single word can produce several sentences and stir up endless discourses about its definition.

If you say the same word a million times will it lose its meaning?

His job is to communicate information and ideas, and how is he supposed to do that when language itself has become meaningless?

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretation and a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

Hence, a generative grammar must be a system of rules that can iterate to generate an indefinitely large number of structures. This system of rules can be analyzed into the three major components of a generative grammar: the syntactic, phonological, and semantic components.

What is important is not merely the information that we put into the line, but what is left of it when it goes through the final machinery to open or close sluices, to synchronize generators, and to do similar tasks. In one sense, this terminal apparatus may be regarded as a filter superimposed on the transmission line. Semantically significant information from the cybernetic point of view is that which gets through the line-plus-filter, rather than that which gets through the line alone.

For a word to be a word, it has to refer to something that is not a word.

What's more, she gives shapes to the links between words and their meanings, and then fits them into chains of her own choosing.

Kelimeler, albay?m, baz? anlamlara gelmiyor.

Sitting rooms make sense. Bedrooms make sense. But why aren't kitchens called food rooms?