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Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:20:32 EDT
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Denis Fodor <[log in to unmask]>
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Steve Schwartz writes:

>As far as I can tell, language depends on denotation much more than music
>does.  Hence, there are dictionaries of verbal language and none of music.
>Also, if languages have a grammar (that is, you can describe how they mean,
>rather than what they mean), what's the grammar of "body language?"

A good question, to which Mae West might have replied, "Honey, if you need
to ask, I'm not playin'."

Denis Fodor

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