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Off topic: The linguistic significance of video phones
Thread poster: Textklick
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In memoriam
May 8, 2005
From The Sunday Times, UK, May 8, 2005
The intellectual's guide to fashion: Video phones
Professor Gideon Garter
After the 1916 publication of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, the academic world awoke to the notion that words have no inherent value except as symbols within a pre-agreed (and arbitrary) system of meaning. The connotative power of simple phonemes (collectively called language) allowed man to develop his full men... See more
From The Sunday Times, UK, May 8, 2005
The intellectual's guide to fashion: Video phones
Professor Gideon Garter
After the 1916 publication of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics, the academic world awoke to the notion that words have no inherent value except as symbols within a pre-agreed (and arbitrary) system of meaning. The connotative power of simple phonemes (collectively called language) allowed man to develop his full mental potential and gave us not just conversation but also poetry, philosophy and law. In the 20th century, the telephone gave language a great boost by stripping away the physical boundaries that had circumscribed it, allowing meaning to be imparted instantly across great distances. Now there is the video phone, which enables people to capture objects and events on film, then send them over those distances without bothering to engage their fat heads in any linguistic process at all — a process as straightforward as a chimpanzee holding up a banana. Technology has finally succeeded in making language redundant and turned men back into monkeys.
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