Friday, December 21, 2012

Merry Christmas!



The Missing All -- prevented Me
From missing minor Things.

Skoro nie mogłam mieć Wszystkiego --
Nie dbałam o brak mniejszych Rzeczy.

Emily Dickinson [985] 
translated to Polish by St. Baranczak


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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Language


How can we describe language?

The best description is contained in the words of Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-British philosopher and author of Philosophical Investigations (1953). He established the background and developed the philosophy of language. All that matters is:

"The limits of my language are the limits of my world"