Re: Duped By Language (was RE: Objective Media?)

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 11:27:32 MDT

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    Lee Corbin wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >Alas, the above was meant only for those who have also drank
    >(heavily or lightly) at the waters of the writings of the
    >great Polish-American semanticist, Count Alfred Habdank
    >Scarbek Korzybski. Anyone who has struggled with even the
    >first fifty pages or so will never forget the unmistakable
    >style and literary pretensions of "Science and Sanity".
    >...
    >Lee
    >
    Unfortunately, I seem to remember a particluar practitioner called
    Hiyakawa, who wrote several books on the subject, and then decided that
    it was more fun/remunerative to exhult in untrammeled emotions, and
    ended up a Senator. So I'm not sure that even a heavy immersion in
    General Semantics would have the effects that you are suggesting. 

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