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Originally posted by Ferdinand de Saussure
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.
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Quick, somebody hold me! I am having flashbacks. Why oh why couldn't I have flashed back to the Bahamas!
Even(shivering in a corner)Odds
