I am looking for a quote
(from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
It goes something like this:
What characterizes a language is not what we can say in it but what we must --
like it or not -- say.
A demo of this is D Hofstadter's
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:14 PM, rusi rustompm...@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking for a quote
(from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
It goes something like this:
What characterizes a language is not what we can say in it but what we must
-- like it or not -- say.
I
On Thursday, June 27, 2013 4:49:23 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:14 PM, rusi wrote:
I am looking for a quote
(from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
It goes something like this:
What characterizes a language is not what we can
2013/6/27 rusi rustompm...@gmail.com:
I am looking for a quote
(from Whorf/Sapir/Wittgenstein/Humboldt dunno... that 'school')
It goes something like this:
What characterizes a language is not what we can say in it but what we must
-- like it or not -- say.
[...]
Hi,
I belive, the author
On Thursday, June 27, 2013 5:40:39 PM UTC+5:30, Vlastimil Brom wrote:
Hi,
I belive, the author is Roman Jakobson, see the respective post about
this very question:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/9/9-32.html
Thanks!
There seem to be several variations,
Another remarkable linguist
