Jammer Wrote:
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> Cladking
>
> You have chosen an absolutely beautiful example.
> To YOU that have seen the bee dance on Natty-G,
> Animal Planet, etc. from the top down view it's a
> 2d aerial view.
>
> The BEES are watching the dancer in the horizontal
> same dimension in the hive!
> If you played a top down map dance to other bees,
> they could probably not translate it at all.
>
> This is a beautiful example of taking something we
> know for granted and assuming others or
> predecessors that had none of our experience would
> somehow concieve & understand by osmosis.
> Thanks for sharing.
>
> Jammer
>

The beauty of language is that any idea can be expressed. This
applied to ancient Egyptian as surely as it applies to English.
One can define the referents as he goes along. There is difficulty
translating concepts from one language to another but there is us-
ually little difficulty in communicating ideas within the same lan-
guage. There are many ways to express any idea whatsoever. Indeed,
if you can think it then there are an infinite number of ways to ex-
press it. Even this short paragraph could have taken any number of
turns at any number of points and when it was started I had no real
idea where it would end up.

Damn! A preposition.




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