semantics and pragmatics :: from university/ linguistics ::
there is a famous article by language philosopher paul grice called „logic and conversation“. he points out that the logic „and“ or „or“ are different to the conversational. the logic language is different to the conversational. it´s the semantics and the pragmatics. i really have no idea, but we did some fun exercises and really, it´s different. same with grammar. i recently asked a native speaker of english about a special phrase. he said: „yes, logically it IS possible, it could be correct. but nobody would say or understand it. it just sounds totally wrong.“ and here comes chomsky who stated that it is ONLY about what native speakers FEEL is correct. no matter what books say. sounds very anarchistic for a university, but that is what chomsky seems to be about.
so, skip logic and jump into chaos again ? yes, of course.
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