I'm sorry, that just blows my mind. I don't want to sound like some old slouch on a southern porch, but seriously, what are they teaching you kids in schools today? Three paragraphs should be nothing, no matter the context, especially if they're well constructed. It's not like this is a chat room.
Speaking of which, I found this excerpt from the Wiki page on words really interesting; you should read it all-
A word is the smallest free form (an item that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content) in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning. A word may consist of only one morpheme (e.g. wolf), but a single morpheme may not be able to exist as a free form (e.g. the English plural morpheme -s).
Typically, a word will consist of a root or stem, and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language, such as phrases, clauses, and/or sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound.
Word may refer to a spoken word or a written word, or sometimes, the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words of graphemes.
Definitions
Look up word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Further information: Lexeme and Lemma (linguistics)
The ease or difficulty of deciphering a word depends on the language. Dictionaries categorize a language's lexicon (i.e., its vocabulary) into lemmas. These can be taken as an indication of what constitutes a "word" in the opinion of the writers.
[edit] Semantic definition
Leonard Bloomfield introduced the concept of "Minimal Free Forms" in 1926. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves.[1] This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning). However, some written words are not minimal free forms, as they make no sense by themselves (for example, the and of).[2]
Some semanticists have proposed a theory of so-called semantic primitives or semantic primes, indefinable words representing fundamental concepts that are intuitively meaningful. According to this theory, semantic primes serve as the basis for describing the meaning, without circularity, of other words and their associated conceptual denotations.[3]
[edit] Features
In the Minimalist school of theoretical syntax, words (also called lexical items in the literature) are construed as "bundles" of linguistic features that are united into a structure with form and meaning.[4] For example, the word "bears" has semantic features (it denotes real-world objects, bears), category features (it is a noun), number features (it is plural and must agree with verbs, pronouns, and demonstratives in its domain), phonological features (it is pronounced a certain way), etc.
[edit] Word boundaries
The task of defining what constitutes a "word" involves determining where one word ends and another word begins—in other words, identifying word boundaries. There are several ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed:
* Potential pause: A speaker is told to repeat a given sentence slowly, allowing for pauses. The speaker will tend to insert pauses at the word boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof: the speaker could easily break up polysyllabic words.
* Indivisibility: A speaker is told to say a sentence out loud, and then is told to say the sentence again with extra words added to it. Thus, I have lived in this village for ten years might become My family and I have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an", the verb ankommen is separated.
* Phonetic boundaries: Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be. For example, in a language that regularly stresses the last syllable of a word, a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can be seen in a language that has vowel harmony (like Turkish):[5] the vowels within a given word share the same quality, so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes. Nevertheless, not all languages have such convenient phonetic rules, and even those that do present the occasional exceptions.
In practice, linguists apply a mixture of all these methods to determine the word boundaries of any given sentence. Even with the careful application of these methods, the exact definition of a word is often still very elusive.
* Orthographic boundaries: See below.
[edit] Orthography
In languages with a literary tradition, there is interrelation between orthography and the question of what is considered a single word. Word separators (typically spaces) are common in modern orthography of languages using alphabetic scripts, but these are (excepting isolated precedents) a modern development (see also history of writing).
In English orthography, words may contain spaces if they are compounds or proper nouns such as ice cream or air raid shelter.
Vietnamese orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic morphemes, not words. East Asian orthography (languages using CJK characters) also tend to delimit syllables rather than full words. Conversely, synthetic languages often combine many lexical morphemes into single words, making it difficult to boil them down to the traditional sense of words found more easily in analytic languages; this is especially difficult for polysynthetic languages, such as Inuktitut and Ubykh, where entire sentences may consist of a single word.
[edit] Morphology
Main article: Morphology (linguistics)
Further information: Inflection
In synthetic languages, a single word stem (for example, love) may have a number of different forms (for example, loves, loving, and loved). However, these are not usually considered to be different words, but different forms of the same word. In these languages, words may be considered to be constructed from a number of morphemes. In Indo-European languages in particular, the morphemes distinguished are
* the root
* optional suffixes
* a desinence.
Thus, the Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dhom would be analyzed as consisting of
1. *wr̥-, the zero grade of the root *wer-
2. a root-extension *-dh- (diachronically a suffix), resulting in a complex root *wr̥dh-
3. The thematic suffix *-o-
4. the neuter gender nominative or accusative singular desinence *-m.
[edit] Philosophy
Philosophers have found words objects of fascination since at least the 5th century BC, with the foundation of the philosophy of language. Plato analyzed words in terms of their origins and the sounds making them up, concluding that there was some connection between sound and meaning though words change a great deal over time. John Locke wrote that the use of words "is to be sensible marks of ideas", though they are chosen "not by any natural connexion that there is between particular articulate sounds and certain ideas, for then there would be but one language amongst all men; but by a voluntary imposition, whereby such a word is made arbitrarily the mark of such an idea".[6] Wittgenstein's thought transitioned from a word as representation of meaning to "the meaning of a word is its use in the language."[7]
[edit] Classes
Main article: Lexical category
Grammar classifies a language's lexicon into several groups of words. The basic bipartite division possible for virtually every natural language is that of nouns vs. verbs.
The classification into such classes is in the tradition of Dionysius Thrax, who distinguished eight categories: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction and interjection.
In Indian grammatical tradition, Pāṇini introduced a similar fundamental classification into a nominal (nāma, suP) and a verbal (ākhyāta, tiN) class, based on the set of desinences taken by the word.
That's definitely better than the UK version then, once we've used our points, that's them gone. (as far as I'm aware anyway) Maybe the Super Nintendo controller will be a platinum tier prize for you guys this year.
We earn coins and if we spend them they're gone, but if we earn enough coins in a year(regardless of whether or not we spend them or spend some of them) we get an extra prize at the end of the year, basically. Not the worst system, though our "normal" not-Platinum prizes pretty much suck.
Tired of uncertainty. Tired of being so far away from certain people. Tired of people crying over petty things. Tired of not being able to speak my mind. Tired of feeling unproductive. Tired of being penniless. But mostly tired of the uncertainty.
Tired of uncertainty. Tired of being so far away from certain people. Tired of people crying over petty things. Tired of not being able to speak my mind. Tired of feeling unproductive. Tired of being penniless. But mostly tired of the uncertainty.
Not sad. Just tired.
Thats the way I have been feeling for the past week.
I'm just feeling terrified of my biochem midterm on Tuesday. I took the practice exams, felt good about them...and then looked at the answers and realized I'd scored about a fifty percent on each one. Except one that I got about a seventy.
Yeah...I've got a lot of studying to do tomorrow. *Mneah! face*
I don't get why people are mad Rare is at Microsoft now. Viva Pinata, Pefect Dark Reborn or whatever it was called, and Banjo Threeie were all very good games. Plus, the new Xbox dashboard that they made is really great too. It's just stubborn people who want Rare to go back to platformers like DK64 or the first two Banjos.
It upsets me because I'm not an Xbox fan in the slightest. There's very little on the console to interest me, certainly not enough that I would ever buy the system. Last generation, I had a GameCube and that was all. I still consider Star Fox Adventures to be one of the best games on the GameCube, even as early in the system's life span as it was released, and it's a cruel joke that it was the only game Rare ever made for the system before Microsoft bought them. Few companies knew how to squeeze everything they could out of the GameCube, and Rare was one of them.
I'm glad to hear there is one sane person on this planet who doesn't bash it because it's "wahhh too similar to t3h zeldehs but with t3h furrriefags". The game and its dungeons are too much fun to hate. T-Rex boss anyone!? And General Scales was a badass villain.
I really need to play it again; it's been too long.
I found Fawful's wikipedia-copied post extremely interesting, even though it was pretty much only stuff I already studied in school and therefore I didn't really learn anything from it.
But it's always nice to get a refresh course!
Also, it seems to me the UK store is much better. Here (I think the US and Canada share the same store) not only do the prices suck but I don't seem to be able to trade for Wii points either to buy games. So the points you collect are pretty much useless if you don't happen to collect them all in the same year (and then you might get one thing that, if you're lucky, doesn't suck too much).
Still, I guess it's better than no points, and I'm still collecting them in case they sell something nice someday.
I want to get an ereader, but it's opening a world of confusion. If I buy a kindle, I CAN read stuff from other stores, as long as it doesn't have DRM, only I have no idea if DRM is commonplace in other stores. Also, the UK kindle store has 450,000 books while the US kindle store has 700,000. It's electronic, so why is there a difference
I want to get an ereader, but it's opening a world of confusion. If I buy a kindle, I CAN read stuff from other stores, as long as it doesn't have DRM, only I have no idea if DRM is commonplace in other stores. Also, the UK kindle store has 450,000 books while the US kindle store has 700,000. It's electronic, so why is there a difference
Most other stores use ePub with Adobe's DRM. I don't know if Amazon's Kindle can read epUb files, and Adobe's DRM is something that is almost trivial to remove, but I'm pretty sure to get a book from almost any other store on Kindle you're probably removing DRM and changing file format, any Kindle owners can correct me if I'm wrong on this.
"This is a non-refundable deposit to guarantee you recieve one of these limited edition busts!
This deposit will serve as the restocking fee on any canceled orders.
You will receive an invoice for the balance due ($45.00) plus S/H charges one week prior to the bust arriving in stock and will have 14 days to pay in full. Any order not paid in full after 14 days will be considered canceled by the customer."
Most other stores use ePub with Adobe's DRM. I don't know if Amazon's Kindle can read epUb files, and Adobe's DRM is something that is almost trivial to remove, but I'm pretty sure to get a book from almost any other store on Kindle you're probably removing DRM and changing file format, any Kindle owners can correct me if I'm wrong on this.
"This is a non-refundable deposit to guarantee you recieve one of these limited edition busts!
This deposit will serve as the restocking fee on any canceled orders.
You will receive an invoice for the balance due ($45.00) plus S/H charges one week prior to the bust arriving in stock and will have 14 days to pay in full. Any order not paid in full after 14 days will be considered canceled by the customer."
Sounds like a scam to me.
Holy damn, I should have read the fine print. What a scam! I really need to learn to read a little more some times and not be as impulsive.
Leaving for Vancouver in a few hours. I'll be there for a week, and I'm not taking my computer or planning to use the Internet.
I was looking forward to missing Sean (I know, it sounds weird) but now that it's so close I'm getting all sad.
On the other hand, I know we'll have lots of fun (I'm going with Ragabash), especially at V-con, which was a lot of fun last year and should be even better now that they've switched to a friendlier hotel.
I'll probably post pics when I'm back. Which would be late Tuesday (not tomorrow, next week's).
I take this to mean that you like Big, in which case my response is also WHAT?!
Seriously, I just played through his entire section of the game last night, and the only good thing about him is that he climbs ladders super fast in a game where everyone else crawls up ladders.
I take this to mean that you like Big, in which case my response is also WHAT?!
Seriously, I just played through his entire section of the game last night, and the only good thing about him is that he climbs ladders super fast in a game where everyone else crawls up ladders.
I just recently bought the new digital re-release of SA, and I am DREADING the upcoming Big levels.
Comments
Three paragraphs are a lot of words to you?
In a forum post, yes.
You have obviously not been reading the animation thread recently.
A word is the smallest free form (an item that may be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content) in a language, in contrast to a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning. A word may consist of only one morpheme (e.g. wolf), but a single morpheme may not be able to exist as a free form (e.g. the English plural morpheme -s).
Typically, a word will consist of a root or stem, and zero or more affixes. Words can be combined to create other units of language, such as phrases, clauses, and/or sentences. A word consisting of two or more stems joined together form a compound.
Word may refer to a spoken word or a written word, or sometimes, the abstract concept behind either. Spoken words are made up of phonemes, and written words of graphemes.
Definitions
Look up word in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Further information: Lexeme and Lemma (linguistics)
The ease or difficulty of deciphering a word depends on the language. Dictionaries categorize a language's lexicon (i.e., its vocabulary) into lemmas. These can be taken as an indication of what constitutes a "word" in the opinion of the writers.
[edit] Semantic definition
Leonard Bloomfield introduced the concept of "Minimal Free Forms" in 1926. Words are thought of as the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves.[1] This correlates phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning). However, some written words are not minimal free forms, as they make no sense by themselves (for example, the and of).[2]
Some semanticists have proposed a theory of so-called semantic primitives or semantic primes, indefinable words representing fundamental concepts that are intuitively meaningful. According to this theory, semantic primes serve as the basis for describing the meaning, without circularity, of other words and their associated conceptual denotations.[3]
[edit] Features
In the Minimalist school of theoretical syntax, words (also called lexical items in the literature) are construed as "bundles" of linguistic features that are united into a structure with form and meaning.[4] For example, the word "bears" has semantic features (it denotes real-world objects, bears), category features (it is a noun), number features (it is plural and must agree with verbs, pronouns, and demonstratives in its domain), phonological features (it is pronounced a certain way), etc.
[edit] Word boundaries
The task of defining what constitutes a "word" involves determining where one word ends and another word begins—in other words, identifying word boundaries. There are several ways to determine where the word boundaries of spoken language should be placed:
* Potential pause: A speaker is told to repeat a given sentence slowly, allowing for pauses. The speaker will tend to insert pauses at the word boundaries. However, this method is not foolproof: the speaker could easily break up polysyllabic words.
* Indivisibility: A speaker is told to say a sentence out loud, and then is told to say the sentence again with extra words added to it. Thus, I have lived in this village for ten years might become My family and I have lived in this little village for about ten or so years. These extra words will tend to be added in the word boundaries of the original sentence. However, some languages have infixes, which are put inside a word. Similarly, some have separable affixes; in the German sentence "Ich komme gut zu Hause an", the verb ankommen is separated.
* Phonetic boundaries: Some languages have particular rules of pronunciation that make it easy to spot where a word boundary should be. For example, in a language that regularly stresses the last syllable of a word, a word boundary is likely to fall after each stressed syllable. Another example can be seen in a language that has vowel harmony (like Turkish):[5] the vowels within a given word share the same quality, so a word boundary is likely to occur whenever the vowel quality changes. Nevertheless, not all languages have such convenient phonetic rules, and even those that do present the occasional exceptions.
In practice, linguists apply a mixture of all these methods to determine the word boundaries of any given sentence. Even with the careful application of these methods, the exact definition of a word is often still very elusive.
* Orthographic boundaries: See below.
[edit] Orthography
In languages with a literary tradition, there is interrelation between orthography and the question of what is considered a single word. Word separators (typically spaces) are common in modern orthography of languages using alphabetic scripts, but these are (excepting isolated precedents) a modern development (see also history of writing).
In English orthography, words may contain spaces if they are compounds or proper nouns such as ice cream or air raid shelter.
Vietnamese orthography, although using the Latin alphabet, delimits monosyllabic morphemes, not words. East Asian orthography (languages using CJK characters) also tend to delimit syllables rather than full words. Conversely, synthetic languages often combine many lexical morphemes into single words, making it difficult to boil them down to the traditional sense of words found more easily in analytic languages; this is especially difficult for polysynthetic languages, such as Inuktitut and Ubykh, where entire sentences may consist of a single word.
[edit] Morphology
Main article: Morphology (linguistics)
Further information: Inflection
In synthetic languages, a single word stem (for example, love) may have a number of different forms (for example, loves, loving, and loved). However, these are not usually considered to be different words, but different forms of the same word. In these languages, words may be considered to be constructed from a number of morphemes. In Indo-European languages in particular, the morphemes distinguished are
* the root
* optional suffixes
* a desinence.
Thus, the Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dhom would be analyzed as consisting of
1. *wr̥-, the zero grade of the root *wer-
2. a root-extension *-dh- (diachronically a suffix), resulting in a complex root *wr̥dh-
3. The thematic suffix *-o-
4. the neuter gender nominative or accusative singular desinence *-m.
[edit] Philosophy
Philosophers have found words objects of fascination since at least the 5th century BC, with the foundation of the philosophy of language. Plato analyzed words in terms of their origins and the sounds making them up, concluding that there was some connection between sound and meaning though words change a great deal over time. John Locke wrote that the use of words "is to be sensible marks of ideas", though they are chosen "not by any natural connexion that there is between particular articulate sounds and certain ideas, for then there would be but one language amongst all men; but by a voluntary imposition, whereby such a word is made arbitrarily the mark of such an idea".[6] Wittgenstein's thought transitioned from a word as representation of meaning to "the meaning of a word is its use in the language."[7]
[edit] Classes
Main article: Lexical category
Grammar classifies a language's lexicon into several groups of words. The basic bipartite division possible for virtually every natural language is that of nouns vs. verbs.
The classification into such classes is in the tradition of Dionysius Thrax, who distinguished eight categories: noun, verb, adjective, pronoun, preposition, adverb, conjunction and interjection.
In Indian grammatical tradition, Pāṇini introduced a similar fundamental classification into a nominal (nāma, suP) and a verbal (ākhyāta, tiN) class, based on the set of desinences taken by the word.
@Fawful GTFO
Not sad. Just tired.
I'll go where I feel like going and you'll "GTFO" of my way.
Thats the way I have been feeling for the past week.
Also thinking Giant Abe is Giant.
Giant Abe Rules!!! I have not been possed to say that *farts*
EDIT:I know miss my oddworld vid I made ages ago that got removed
Yeah...I've got a lot of studying to do tomorrow. *Mneah! face*
Finally someone says this.
But seriously, I'm glad to hear I'm not alone on this one.
I really need to play it again; it's been too long.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=360289307197&Category=37888&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26its%3DI%26otn%3D2
But it's always nice to get a refresh course!
Also, it seems to me the UK store is much better. Here (I think the US and Canada share the same store) not only do the prices suck but I don't seem to be able to trade for Wii points either to buy games. So the points you collect are pretty much useless if you don't happen to collect them all in the same year (and then you might get one thing that, if you're lucky, doesn't suck too much).
Still, I guess it's better than no points, and I'm still collecting them in case they sell something nice someday.
That just made the ending part even more disappointing >___<
"This is a non-refundable deposit to guarantee you recieve one of these limited edition busts!
This deposit will serve as the restocking fee on any canceled orders.
You will receive an invoice for the balance due ($45.00) plus S/H charges one week prior to the bust arriving in stock and will have 14 days to pay in full. Any order not paid in full after 14 days will be considered canceled by the customer."
Sounds like a scam to me.
hardest game ever in my opinion :P
Holy damn, I should have read the fine print. What a scam! I really need to learn to read a little more some times and not be as impulsive.
I was looking forward to missing Sean (I know, it sounds weird) but now that it's so close I'm getting all sad.
On the other hand, I know we'll have lots of fun (I'm going with Ragabash), especially at V-con, which was a lot of fun last year and should be even better now that they've switched to a friendlier hotel.
I'll probably post pics when I'm back. Which would be late Tuesday (not tomorrow, next week's).
WHAT?! :eek:
Seriously, I just played through his entire section of the game last night, and the only good thing about him is that he climbs ladders super fast in a game where everyone else crawls up ladders.
I just recently bought the new digital re-release of SA, and I am DREADING the upcoming Big levels.