Oct 2016
2:32pm, 11 Oct 2016
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Surelynot
I can't draw anything. Does this mean everythign is abstract?
Argh.
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Oct 2016
2:43pm, 11 Oct 2016
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macca 53
and of course we can all *draw strength*
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Oct 2016
2:44pm, 11 Oct 2016
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Dvorak
That's an interesting philosophical position, Surelynot. I'm sure there are many linguistic treatises centred on worldview vis a vis how a language names things, but the situation of someone, dependent on their individual ability to symbolically represent items, has that been adequately examined?
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Oct 2016
2:47pm, 11 Oct 2016
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Surelynot
I think this is an area worth exploring, Dvorak. Just not by me.
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Oct 2016
2:58pm, 11 Oct 2016
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JenL
Professor Lynne Cameron at the University of Birmingham has done a lot of work on Metaphor and its use in language - with metaphor being a much much bigger idea than it was presented as to many of us at school (ie: a metaphor is saying one thing IS another; a simile is saying one thing is LIKE another).
A huge percentage of our spoken language is metaphorical - "draw strength" for instance and the metaphors chosen by different languages don't necessarily translate from one language to another even when we have key metaphors for the same events/occurrences/feelings etc.
Someone asked further back "who decides?" about whether a noun is concrete or abstract and it's a really good question. I would say it's decided by testers in situations in which it's deemed essential to impose regulation on how language is used/understood.
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Oct 2016
3:06pm, 11 Oct 2016
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Dvorak
Did she draw deep from the wellspring of her inspiration for that work, Jen?
I used to be a Government artist . . . I drew the dole.
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Oct 2016
3:08pm, 11 Oct 2016
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JenL
Oh I do hope so
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Oct 2016
3:13pm, 11 Oct 2016
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Columba
I can draw curtains. But not with a pencil.
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Oct 2016
3:22pm, 11 Oct 2016
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JenL
I've been known to draw inspiration and, occasionally, even attention.
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Oct 2016
3:23pm, 11 Oct 2016
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JenL
Odd attention is less welcome, of course
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