Int erpreting the Signs I don't know about you, but when I was a child (this would have been maybe 3rd grade) I often tried to figure out how my language was created. I have a particularly vivid memory of sitting in a snow cave I had built on a cold carved reclining seat with my flashlight on a little shelf. I was talking out loud and my knitted mittens were soaked through wet, and my puffy blue snow suit zipped up to my chin. I was saying something to the effect of "I will call this an 'arm'... wait first I need the concept of I, (here I grunt and point to myself) so I will call me 'I', now I need a concept of labeling so I will call this 'call', now I need a concept of the future..." and here I start getting brain freeze and start all over again. Language, and this includes the interpretation of visual coding, seemed a huge mystery, and it continues to be that way. In its absolute most basic form social semiotics is the idea that there is a
On Putin and Poutine If you want to start a discussion or an argument, using a colorful photo is a great place to start so I will start my blog with the original post's picture as well. This small business owner managed to start a bit of a tussle posting on Reddit which resulted in 174 posts some of which were removed and ultimately the post was locked by moderators. Apparently, a couple of days ago, a struggling food cart owner in Portland, OR by name of u/cucumberconundrum arrived at work to find their window broken and graffitied. Out of frustration, they began the conversation with the following title. "You’re not wrong, but I’m just not sure how breaking the window of a small business is supposed to help." u/cucumberconundrum's first mistake was posting in haste which the author regretted soon after and tried to back-peddle by apologizing to their community with the graphic details of what a rotten few months they have been having. The soliloquy on thei