Saturday, April 9, 2011

Paws-to-Ponder: Semanticism

Semanticism. This may be the wrong spelling.
I couldn't - for the life of me - find a noun for this adjective. Could the Enggrish-Teacher-In-Da-House point me with some pointers.


Anyways, semanticism. I picked this word from the 1000000 paged introduction to the book I'm poring over these days (all 21 of them). The book I refer to is The Analects of Confucius. 




It can be inferred that Mr Ames took great care to establish the context in which Mr Confucius' wise sayings can be interpreted. It can also be inferred that he put great effort to defend the argument that Mr Confucius' seemingly random sentences may not be jibberish like the anti-supporters suggest.


Mr Ames, in penning his ideas however, hadn't realised I'm taking great pains to nurse this great pain in my temple indirectly caused by the painful length of his introduction text, which he took great pains to put together. To date, I have not gone on to the part where I could read the wise sayings said by Mr Confucius, as I still am continuing to pore over the last part of the introduction chapters.


I have, however, learnt the word 'semantic' from Mr Ames' introduction. I believe I'd seen this word for only about 10 times in the last hour. Because this word is really cool, I have made Semanticism my new hobby.


"It's amazing that people know that things will happen the way they will do before the events take place."


Now, that's a simple semantic thought I made. Hope you embrace and like it.


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