Re: Are computer icons on-topic?

Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:12:37 -0500, Peter T. Daniels
><grammatim@...> wrote:
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>>>I'll accept the close connection with utterance (which, by the way,
>>>encompasses more than speech, as I hear it).
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>>? An utterance is a stretch of speech.
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>Is ululation an utterance?
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Or an address given in Sign Language? I'd probably have to say that the
latter is an utterance, even if not "phonated" and transmitted by
vibrating air molecules.

A ululation is not a linguistic expression, so would not qualify.

~mark