Should Kings and Nations from thy mouth conſult, / Thy Counſel would be as the Oracle / Urim and Thummim, those oraculous gems / On Aaron’s breaſt: or tongue of Seers old / Infallible; […]
Who's making that row?
For those who treat language as a generative system for objectively describing the world, deixis is a big black fly in the ointment. Deixis introduces subjective, attentional, intentional and, of course, context-dependent properties into natural languages.
Because he's spayshul. His goldensprog is going to cure cancer, eliminate poverty, save the world from evildoers, ring in a new era of enlightenment ... and produce golden-grandsprogs.
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