The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #62290   Message #1010453
Posted By: Blackcatter
29-Aug-03 - 06:24 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Jokes I stole
Subject: RE: Folklore: Jokes I stole
But sometimes its fun to deconstruct!

Especially if you don't get serious about it. I just happen to love the way people use words. I could say misuse words, but definitions are just conventions that we more or less agree to in order to make language work.

Take the word love. What's it mean? In English we use that word for a multipliciy of meanings that in many languages have their own word. Yet we typcically know what people mean when they use the word because of context.

Cool huh? So ahem . . . how about those Red Sox this year, eh?