--- In
cybalist@... s.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>
> On 2006-07-07 14:49, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Language is generally insuffiently expressive compared to a
suitably
> > powerful symbolic language (and bla-bla). I meant that the
language
> > you intended would have been LBK in the outside world, not in
your
> > mind (and said language might have left
traces in Balkan
languages,
> > whichever they were). I know you have reserved LBK as the PIE ur-
> > culture.
>
> Leaving bla-bla on the side,
For the record, the "bla-bla" was an auto-comment
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I think I may be overstepping my boundaries by commenting on what you wrote there:
I think other English speakers on cybalist will agree with me when I say that your use of the term "auto-comment" sounds a bit peculiar when read. I take it you mean "auto" in its Greek meaning of "self", and meant that it was a comment for yourself only. However, I think generally speaking in English "auto-" as a prefix has come to be understood most frequently as a short form for "automatic", and often suggests a machine or some other automated mechanism. Hence when you said that "bla-bla" was an auto-comment, it sounded like you meant that it was a comment automatically generated by your
computer. I know you certainly don't need help regarding English, you could probably teach me, but I think the coinage "self-comment" might have been more correct.
This may have been a completely unnecessary comment on my part, but I just wanted to mention it, because I remember you used a similar coinage once before which I didn't understand at the time.
Andrew
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