Words, like dna, lose their means of past construction, and retain only their current associations. Words are products manufactured in the moment. Are you trying to do what webster did, or the Egyptians did, and the chinese less so, and anchor words in time?
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-16 21:21:40 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173708556350251008
Reply addressees: @Semiogogue
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@Semiogogue
@curtdoolittle No desire to unmake words. Only to show what they rest upon, their developmental antecedents, which are *persistent* and running, mostly unnoticed, as a parallel (and older) system: territorial, environmental and resource marks. Marks used to shape behavior.
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1173707729510309889
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