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Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 218 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"One of the hallmarks of language is that it is encyclopaedic in nature"
Sep 06, 2018 10:42AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 217 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"This leads English-speakers to perceive semantic unity [in the uses of 'time']. But this, ultimately, is an artefact of English, rather than being an objective feature of Time, whatever Time ultimately is"
Sep 06, 2018 10:40AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 213 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Motion -> Intention -> Prediction -> Future; Semantic evolution of the 'future' meaning of (BE) GOING TO
Sep 06, 2018 10:37AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 268 of 288 of The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
"But the two chief personages in the drama remained." - well, her two chief personages. To me it seems that Raglan and Nolan had equal responsibility, but perhaps not such narrative potential.
Sep 01, 2018 07:16AM Add a comment
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 267 of 288 of The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
"It is nothing," he said, "to Chilianwallah." - maybe there was a foundation for all the prejudice against Indian Officers.
Sep 01, 2018 07:13AM Add a comment
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 264 of 288 of The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
"Untrained, untried officers were in charge of divisions and brigades in the field, the staff were ignorant of their duties and quite unable to translate the Commander-in-chief's wishes into clear language..." - if there is a single reason why, it's a linguistic one.
Sep 01, 2018 07:12AM Add a comment
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 141 of 288 of The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
"But the all-important fact was that the Duke had been a military genius, perhaps the greatest in history, and unsurpassed as a military administrator" - Anglo-Irish preference?
Sep 01, 2018 02:52AM Add a comment
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 22 of 288 of The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
"Men were to become officers only if they could pay down a substantial sum for their commission; that is, if they were men of property with stake in the country, not military adventurers." - cf. the Royal Navy.
Sep 01, 2018 02:50AM Add a comment
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 10 of 288 of The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
"Famous for the daring elegance of his trousers and his cravats..." - inspiration for Blackadder?
Sep 01, 2018 02:47AM Add a comment
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 209 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"the 'John is in front of me' interpretation, seems nowadays, to require more effort" - or more exposure to literature.
Aug 31, 2018 05:22AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 204 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"why should these new meanings become conventionally associated with 'over' rather than a different word-form?' - in Hungarian how many are associated with a different word form?
Aug 31, 2018 05:19AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 188 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"...a science of blending must grapple with the respective contribution of knowledge of different types in the process of creative thought." - No kidding, his examples 'low carbon diet' and 'welfare shopping' look like purely linguistic plays, does language use facilitate creativity?
Aug 30, 2018 05:43AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 155 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Creativity - bisociation described by Koestler - she argues, arises from the commonplace mental operations that are part and parcel of the everyday mind." - I got here years ago, worryingly, Koestler and Boden, not to mention de Bono and Storr all had these ideas a long time ago. Has there been no research since?
Aug 30, 2018 05:37AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 141 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"aspects of visual texture (textons) and object shapes (geons)" - don't we have spectrum of more or less complex conceptual objects?
Aug 29, 2018 06:08AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 124 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"to be a concept, we must understand the functional consequences of the entity" - so light/dark and shapes are not concepts?
Aug 29, 2018 06:04AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 524 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour...
Aug 26, 2018 10:15AM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 484 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"The Calendar in the Shire differed in several features from ours. The year no doubt was of the same length, for long ago as times are now reckoned in years and lives of men, they were not very remote according to the memory of the Earth."
Aug 25, 2018 07:51AM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 118 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"In contrast to primary emotions, which are innate, secondary emotions are acquired.. they are learned responses".
Aug 25, 2018 05:43AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 114 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"Reason, it turns out, is contingent on having a normally functioning body."
Aug 25, 2018 05:38AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 106 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"And why this definition of the generic property associated with all nouns is quite abstract, it is a spatial idea" 😯 Cognitive Linquistìcs, apparently.
Aug 25, 2018 05:36AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 420 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"For nearly thirty years he laboured in the cause against Sauron: and became a friend of Gandalf the Wise, from whom he learned much wisdom." - the obvious prequel to the LotR. The most surprising thing is that Tolkien didn't follow this character arc, but lead with the self-sacrifice of Hobbits instead.
Aug 24, 2018 10:41AM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 399 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"His queen had been a fair and noble lady, but short-lived...the Dúnedain feared that her descendents would prove the same and fall from the majesty of the Kings of Men" says the same principle apply to the British royal family: age is virtue?
Aug 22, 2018 10:55AM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 324 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?"
Gandalf did not answer. - Frodo used by Gandalf, like Harry Potter and Dumbledore?
Aug 22, 2018 08:43AM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 174 of 256 of Granta 114: Aliens
"Attachment is what will expose you as a traitor to the revolution..." - Communism with Buddhist characteristics.
Aug 21, 2018 11:09AM Add a comment
Granta 114: Aliens

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 152 of 256 of Granta 114: Aliens
"Sister Nena had been the focal point of all my feelings of persecution, the repository for my childish anger. I knew that she had thought me lazy and slow, dull as a butter knife" - this story, the lifelong relationship of teacher and pupil should engage me. It doesn't. Maybe because this sentence occurs half way through and not at the beginning?
Aug 21, 2018 06:37AM Add a comment
Granta 114: Aliens

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 105 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
".. the stuff that makes up the domain of space is matter, ... two broad types can be distinquished: discrete enitities ... and mass entities. The stuff that makes up time is action [which] can also be broadly subdiveded into action that is discrete... and that which is unbounded.

These distinctions are captured by a fundamental design feature of the grammatical system of language" - Magyar?
Aug 17, 2018 05:24AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 210 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command." - Sam Gamgee, anarchist?
Aug 15, 2018 12:40PM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 184 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"The Stones of Seeing do not lie, and not even the Lord of Barad-dûr can make them do so. He can, maybe, by his will choose what things shall be seen by weaker minds, or cause them to mistake the meaning of what they see." - media manipulation 101
Aug 15, 2018 12:36PM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 96 of 378 of The Crucible of Language
"And this demonstration reveals a further property of concepts, and their relationship with language: they are automatically called to mind when we read or speak. DON"T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT" - aren't some utterences concept free?
Aug 14, 2018 07:52AM Add a comment
The Crucible of Language

Adrian Buck
Adrian Buck is on page 100 of 556 of The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
"But surely not for any argument would he have set this thing at a hazard beyond all but a fool's hope." - Is Denethor, Gandalf's only serious opposition?
Aug 13, 2018 06:39AM Add a comment
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)

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