[Corpora-List] What is corpora and what is not?

[Trevor Jenkins]

On 9 Oct 2012, at 03:28, Laurence Anthony <anthony0122 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Angus Grieve-Smith <grvsmth at panix.com> wrote:
> 
>>    Well, people communicate or they don't.  Or they sort of communicate.
>> Any of these can happen with or without mutually accepted meanings.  That's
>> what I see in my data.  What does your data tell you?
> 
> We can never have completely perfect mutually accepted meanings. So,
> there is always an element of miscommunication. Scientists strive to
> reduce the amount of miscommunication by being very careful with the
> terms that they use.

I like this quote, which I encountered when preparing for an interpreting booking

Liberals often use the vocabulary of evangelicals but not our dictionary, and this is why we must be doubly vigilant in the conflict that is looming.

Donald Bloesch. (1978). Essentials of Evangelical Theology, volume 1, page x.

We may think we know what the other person/people are saying and they may thing the same of us but we have to be very careful to ensure that what we all mean in use of a word is identical.

Personally, I like Humpty Dumpty myself. 

Regards, Trevor.

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