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Fantastic Adjectives
Have been reading about Buddhism and Semiotics lately. The wonderfully loquacious and logorythmic Fabio Rambelli - the Italian academic who lives in Japan and publishes in English, Japanese as well as Italian (he apparently speaks French as well!). His title, Associate professor of semiotics of culture and Japanese religions and intellectual history , says it all really.
A small sample:
He describes Kukai's work as polyhedrical. Of course Fabio knows all about polyhedricality. My old favourite adjective was Autumnal. No more. One must change or become monohedrical.
Two words in Japanese (mon and monji) are synynomical variants of each other and are polysemic and ambiguous.
Plain English? Piss off!!
And finally on this topic... why is there no other words for "synonym". www.synonym.com. I also checked in my Oxford Thesaurus?! Nada, nothing, naught, nil, Sweet FA, zero, not a sausage!
Have been reading about Buddhism and Semiotics lately. The wonderfully loquacious and logorythmic Fabio Rambelli - the Italian academic who lives in Japan and publishes in English, Japanese as well as Italian (he apparently speaks French as well!). His title, Associate professor of semiotics of culture and Japanese religions and intellectual history , says it all really.
A small sample:
He describes Kukai's work as polyhedrical. Of course Fabio knows all about polyhedricality. My old favourite adjective was Autumnal. No more. One must change or become monohedrical.
Two words in Japanese (mon and monji) are synynomical variants of each other and are polysemic and ambiguous.
Plain English? Piss off!!
And finally on this topic... why is there no other words for "synonym". www.synonym.com. I also checked in my Oxford Thesaurus?! Nada, nothing, naught, nil, Sweet FA, zero, not a sausage!
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