Apr 27 2007

Semiotics

Published by afemaleguest at 9:56 pm under Current Affairs

Language is arbitrary. That was what one of my lecturer said when we
talked about the main core of semiotics. There is no reason why one
thing is called a certain word. “Let us take the word fuck for
example.” He went one saying. That word can be vulgar to swear people,
but that can also mean something else, such as very, in a sentence,
‘this food is fucking delicious.”

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Thanks :)
Nana




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