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Re: In the Beginning Was the…Meaning?
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Originally Posted by coberst
In the Beginning Was the…Meaning?
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The word ‘meaning’ has at least two meanings. The meaning of something can be its definition as found in a dictionary; also the meaning of something can be what association it has with me. For example: the Iraq war had some meaning to me as an aware citizen of America but that same war has a great deal more meaning to me if my grandson joins the army and is sent to Iraq.
Is it possible for the word, i.e. language, to come before the meaning?
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Hi Coberst,
This may be an example.
I applied some rough rules of soldier latin (i.e. not exact but good enough for someone using a lexicon) on the latin vulgate of John 1:1 as drawn in the Book of Kells and came up with an interesting 'meaning' that is probably as aplicable as any.
'During original worship poetry springs, twisting both sayings'
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Corollary to the Peter Principle: Once you have promoted all of your competents to their highest level of incompetence you must change your management philosophy from top down to bottom up, because the staff at the bottom are the only competent ones in your entire organisation.
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