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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Marty Heidegger is history's best proof that phenomenological reductions should be performed, if at all, in a language other than German. I proposed Klingon, but even my profs seemed to think this was dorky.
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It is little wonder they thought so. Language is more than phonemes, graphemes, morphemes, and lexemes. You've got to get semiotically involved. Semiosis, as I'm sure you know, combines morphemic elements syntagmatically in a horizontal relationship of contiguity (makes a sentence) and chooses elements paradigmatically in a vertical relationship of selectivity (chooses which signs to use). Any large arrangement of semiotic units constitutes a discourse.
Linguist Marc Okrand invented not just a few words to make the Klingons sound alien, but a complete language, with its own vocabulary, grammar, and usage. Arguably this could be considered discourse as there are no fixed rules about how language may be used. However, the Klingon language is still primitive and is insufficient paradigmatically along the axis of substitution to adequately relate "Marty's" theories of being and nothingness.
Plus, you are a dork.
