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Gods of the word:

archetypes in the consonants
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Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999 - 146 Seiten
In 1993, as part of a computer project I was working on, I found myself reading an English dictionary and dividing all the words into prefixes, suffixes and roots. I had read studies in linguists which suggested that the initial consonants of a word had a set of meanings, and the remaining rhyming part also had a set of meanings. One 'sense' of 'str-' is linearity: string, strip, stripe, street, etc. And one sense of '-ap' is flat: cap, flap, lap, map, etc. If you put them together, you get a flat line: 'strap'. The idea fascinated me, and since I was marking all these words anyway, I decided to keep an eye out for these classes which have similar meaning and pronunciation both. It turns out that it is possible by means of a series of repeatable experiments to show that certain meanings hang out with certain phonemes and others do not. I have been working on a dictionary which outlines this data for English in much more detail rather formally and scientifically. But I also have many thoughts which I seem to express more openly and cheerfully when I voice them in a separate book. My purpose here is therefore not to prove anything, but to summarise my most important findings in plain English and to philosophise freely and naively on their significance.

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This is a very entertaining and edifying work on linguistics. It is really thought-provoking. I recommend it for anyone who is interested in the marvels of language. Its a short book but packed with amazing information.

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The hypothesis of this book is astounding and asounding - that each letter/phoneme of the alphabet has its own meaning - so, "S" is snake, string, straight, strait, stretch, street, - linear items. This changes everything. Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Summary of Scientific Methods and Results
19
The Consonants
42
Language as a Philosophical Tool
63
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