78 Quotes About Semantics

I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe.""You poked it with a stick?""No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Receiver: Speech discriminates between listening ears even if sound does not.

We can ruin our enjoyment of a song by finding a translation of the lyrics into a language we understand.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

A thing named, misnamed, unnamed, or renamed is still itself.

We misunderstand the messages behind some of our most favourite songs.