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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 11:51 AM
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A personal pet peeve.
Language and what is a label.

What a phrase means to one person, it does not mean to someone else, it depends the context you personally see it in.

And there is a thing about labels, groups try to own them or assign value to them. Liberal is a good example it has been filled with anger by speech from many on radio. But what does it mean? Different things to different people.

So pick some term, is it possible it meant one thing 500 years ago, then was attempted to be changed 200 years ago, or even changed a few decades ago?

What do words mean to you? What do they mean to the people that use them? And what should they mean?

In my view groups that I do not respect do not get to keep labels for good things they try to take and use for their own reasons. So I like to find the meaning I like in things, especially music.


What is the song, "nothing is what it seems." is a lyric...

Ahh, Listen To Your Heart.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4804147606814327003#


I listen to songs for days, the same song all day, and find story after story, some of them so beautiful, some not so much, each in the same song depending on what each word means, and the context. It is like a picture tells a thousand words, a word says a thousand words.


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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 02:35 PM
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1. "Liberal" means "Large"
I smeared a LIBERAL amount of peanut butter on my cheeseburger. Mmmmm!

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