Re: [O=PG] difficulty: G? PG? R? X? XXX?

Ray Haddad <rhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:37:06 -0700, I said, "Pick a card, any card"
and boots <no@xxxxx> instead replied:

Alan Hope <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ray Haddad goes:

The meaning you choose comes from you, Hope-a-dope. The meaning I
choose comes from me. See how that works? Probably not, Hope-a-dope.

That's not how language works. If it were, it in fact wouldn't work.
Language is based on shared meanings, or it's nothing.

Quietly whispered: That isn't how language works for you Hope, but
you probably aren't autistic.

And you are?

Probably. Who knows, who cares?

I suppose that does explain a lot.

Like what, it takes one to know one? How clever of you.

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