Mr. Okada, with the help of a very deft translation by Aya Ogawa, makes sure that even if it take a while to communicate a thought, a mood of indulgence and despair emerges clearly.
Fowler's premise was that language's main function is to communicate a thought with sufficient clarity that the intended reader or listener will understand unambiguously what was written or said.
If you're depending on a smiley face to communicate a thought to a client or a distant colleague, he tells young lawyers in his firm, you should probably step away from the keyboard, get on a plane and communicate in person.
(An "expression," in ancient Chinese philosophy of language, is any string of two or more words used to communicate a thought).
"The thing that excites me is it's still a way for someone to communicate a thought, a feeling, and not necessarily having the vocabulary for a starting point," Pinero said.
Like opera, social media is dedicated to amplifying human utterance so that a single voice communicating an intimate thought may be heard by hundreds, even thousands of people.
Meaning, if the Secretary and her Chief of Staff were to have electronically communicated an idea or thought that is rejected and never implemented, does the world really need to know about it?
But the logos are single designs within the line, usually designed to communicate a certain thought provoking idea.
During art therapy, people report that art-making is a source of joy, even when they're creating art that may communicate a painful thought or memory.
The whole point of a work of art is to communicate something — a thought, an idea, a feeling, a vision.
For Mill, this definition from Hobbes gives names a twofold purpose: (1) a name is a mark that allows us to recall a former thought, and (2) a name is a means of communicating our thoughts to others, a sign (in Mill's words) of "what thought the speaker had before in his mind".
