Hi Karl,
David:
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:57 PM, David Kummerow<farmerjoeblo at
hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> If you had been listening, you would have heard that your dialectal
>> use is valid but only for within your dialect.
>
> So semantics as uncancellable meaning is invalid as a principal within a
> dialect, but not so within a "standard language"?
Is this a question showing great ignorance of linguistic principles,
or one that is snide and sneering?
No, it's definitely one that I do not hold to and I would strongly
contend against. But it's what you seem to mean when you said: "If you
had been listening, you would have heard that your dialectal use is
valid but only for within your dialect." That is, the the cancellable
semantics of "plod" is only valid within my dialect, and so as such
semantics as uncancellable meaning is only appropriate as an area of
study and as a principle within a dialect.
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