All Quotes By Tag: Semantics

“Receiver:Speech discriminates between listening ears even if sound does not.”

Card image cap - Vijay Fafat,
Tag: advice, discern, discriminate, grooks, knowledge, meaning, semantics, speech, understand, wisdom,

“We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.”

Card image cap - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Tag: facts, reality, semantics, thinking, thought, truth, words,

“Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?Ford: We’re safe.Arthur: Oh good.Ford: We’re in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn’t previously aware of.”

Card image cap - Douglas Adams,
Tag: humor, safe, safety-in-numbers, semantics, word, wordplay,

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”

Card image cap - J.R.R. Tolkien,
Tag: humor, semantics, suspicion,