Melvyn Clarke
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The Czech-English translator – not the Carshalton ironmonger's. Latest translations include books on Cz Legions in Siberia and Cz astronomers worldwide. Getting down to the nuts and bolts of translation theory. Thingy/doodah.
And as for those "echoes", I remember once coming across the concept of "taboo (semantic) leakage" e.g. when one meaning of "cock" has an influence on usage of another meaning. But I can find no reference now to semantic leakage outside the context of LLMs.
March 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
And as for those "echoes", I remember once coming across the concept of "taboo (semantic) leakage" e.g. when one meaning of "cock" has an influence on usage of another meaning. But I can find no reference now to semantic leakage outside the context of LLMs.
As for Nietzsche, he wrote something to the effect that maturity is nothing but the rediscovery of the earnestness employed in our childhood games. :-)
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
As for Nietzsche, he wrote something to the effect that maturity is nothing but the rediscovery of the earnestness employed in our childhood games. :-)
They are perhaps competing against the script itself, which perhaps represents a particular cognitive schema (e.g. "house", "going shopping" etc.) Just a thought.
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
They are perhaps competing against the script itself, which perhaps represents a particular cognitive schema (e.g. "house", "going shopping" etc.) Just a thought.
Okay that is stretching things a bit, but that might be because it is normally a covert, underlying reason. I mean why else would youngsters argue so much during their sociodramatic role playing games, which often follow very strict _rules_?
March 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Okay that is stretching things a bit, but that might be because it is normally a covert, underlying reason. I mean why else would youngsters argue so much during their sociodramatic role playing games, which often follow very strict _rules_?
In make-believe games we might be trying to upstage each other or our own previous performance. I feel the idea of competition is always there in the background of a game to some extent.
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In make-believe games we might be trying to upstage each other or our own previous performance. I feel the idea of competition is always there in the background of a game to some extent.
Yes, that is an interesting semantic shift between game and Spiel (or Czech hra for that matter). All the same, he was writing in English, :-) and I think competition is not an either/or polarity, but that it can lurk in the background before coming to the fore...
March 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Yes, that is an interesting semantic shift between game and Spiel (or Czech hra for that matter). All the same, he was writing in English, :-) and I think competition is not an either/or polarity, but that it can lurk in the background before coming to the fore...
While looking around for more examples of repetition that work well in everyday texts, I came across this useful rundown of seven types of repetition recognized in classical rhetoric. Number four can still often be heard at Speakers’ Corner.
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Repetition is not intuitive. People don’t generally want to repeat themselves, and yet, some of history’s most famous speeches—from Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” to Winston Churchill’s “We Sha...
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March 18, 2025 at 6:33 PM
While looking around for more examples of repetition that work well in everyday texts, I came across this useful rundown of seven types of repetition recognized in classical rhetoric. Number four can still often be heard at Speakers’ Corner.
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Oh, many thanks for letting me know, Wendy. I was wondering what Nick was on about. I have now hopefully evicted the gremlins...
March 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Oh, many thanks for letting me know, Wendy. I was wondering what Nick was on about. I have now hopefully evicted the gremlins...
No worries. As it happens I am part Welsh, but over the course of a hundred years the swarthy Welsh contingent in my family moved from Flintshire via Cheshire to Manchester, which some consider to be the "capital of the north". Now that is a case where repetition works well IMO. :-) Or does it?
March 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
No worries. As it happens I am part Welsh, but over the course of a hundred years the swarthy Welsh contingent in my family moved from Flintshire via Cheshire to Manchester, which some consider to be the "capital of the north". Now that is a case where repetition works well IMO. :-) Or does it?
A full post? But that is a full post! Several quotes if you look carefully. I may possibly write even more after due deliberation... Perhaps some more examples of repetition that works. No hurry. :-)
March 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
A full post? But that is a full post! Several quotes if you look carefully. I may possibly write even more after due deliberation... Perhaps some more examples of repetition that works. No hurry. :-)
Hey bud, :-) what makes you think I am not a Welshman?
March 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hey bud, :-) what makes you think I am not a Welshman?