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Ivory towers Define my reality: Life of solitude.

I'm proud to say that I found a mistake in Steven Pinker's book. When explaining about onomatopoeia he illustrates the idea with a comic in which four dog bark in four different languages. But the Romanian and Portuguese dogs got switched. A Romanian dog would say "ham-ham" for sure. I know. I heard them. Now I would like to present some of the "Fifty Thousand Innate Concepts" I learned from this book. Theories of conceptual semantics - Extreme Nativism Nativism refers to an emphasis on innate mental organization Ideas: * single-morpheme word vs multi-morpheme words * definition vs semantic representation * verbs are composed from a smaller number of conceptual particles * conative alternations (eg. possessor-raising, locative, anti-causative) - Radical Pragmatics The mind does not contain fixed representations of the meanings of words. Oxymoron = a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. Polysemy (many meanings) = a word having a...

Smile, and the world smiles with you; cry, and you cry alone. The best of friends need not speak face to face. All cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet. and more

And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKeena was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him. The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy quotes