(Remember Swinburne?) Year One of a life newly devoted to words.
Miles from the Las Vegas strip, along a dusty highway flanked by barbed-wire fences and strip malls, Sin City harbours an unexpected secret: a museum devoted to words.
Rather nicely, in a book devoted to words, logos, translated in the King James Version of the Gospel of John simply as "the word," turns out to be the most all-purpose of items.
The most heinous talk-crime was committed in the sequence in which the upper-class family discussed "tinny" (as opposed to "woody") words: In same sequence 1 06 removed starting with "Intercourse," "Later, dear," to delete section devoted to words with sexual references including "pert thighs," "erogenous zone" (repeated three times), "tit, tit, tit, tinny".
One chapter is titled "I Didn't Know There Was a Word for That!" Another is devoted to "Portmanteaux" (words like "smog," formed by combining two words) and still another to "Words That Make the Spell-Checker Ineffective".
There are, for example, 17 pages devoted to the word "umu," meaning "day".
Gripe, a company that describes itself as a "better Better Business Bureau for the Twitter age," is devoted to spreading word of a problem quickly.
The first two separate chapters of the Syncategoreumata are devoted to the words est and non, which are said to be implied in all other syncategorematic words.
In the 1960s, however, Noam Chomsky pushed the envelope with a radical proposal: a theory that humans have an innate mental apparatus specifically devoted to assembling words into sentences — an inborn "language organ".
She imagines the exhibit as a series of TV screens, each devoted to the words and image of a particular person, with some of the screens left blank, to be filled in as the final interviews of the decade are completed.
Syncategoremata are treatises devoted to syncategorematic words; in these treatises sophismata are used to illustrate or to give more refined explanations of the logical behaviour of the different syncategorematic words (or kinds of syncategorematic words).
