Well, thanks for getting back to me on this. And I think you're right in everything you said. Especially the relationship of the meaning of privilege as it relates to luck. I've been rather privileged in that way for a few reasons myself.
Semantics can be choppy waters to navigate sometimes. But while I'm by no means a language expert of…
Well, thanks for getting back to me on this. And I think you're right in everything you said. Especially the relationship of the meaning of privilege as it relates to luck. I've been rather privileged in that way for a few reasons myself.
Semantics can be choppy waters to navigate sometimes. But while I'm by no means a language expert of any kind, I've always been interested in language and words and how they serve as the main medium for our communication with each other, and I often find the nuances of that communication of particular interest, and like to get perspectives from people that, because of their own life experiences, may see something I take to be correct about this subject differently from me.
You noted that you may choose different words to convey the same idea, depending upon whom you're talking to. I often do the same, in the interest of trying to make a point without generating any unnecessary and distracting heat, whether it involves posting a comment or speaking to someone IRL. There are a few other places where I post comments that I often write a bit differently than I do here for a couple of reasons, so your point about that is well taken.
Thanks again for your response. I find it quite useful in my thinking on this. BTW...interesting what you said about reading Inferno using a verso translation. Have never had that kind of experience, since my only language skills are of the English variety. I'm of Italian descent, my father being 1st generation from a large Italian family in Philly. He spoke and understood Italian, but never passed that skill on to me. Wasn't much call for it in the small central Kentucky town where I was born and raised, being as ours was the only Italian name in the phone book. Which not only covered the town but the whole county. ;-)
Well, thanks for getting back to me on this. And I think you're right in everything you said. Especially the relationship of the meaning of privilege as it relates to luck. I've been rather privileged in that way for a few reasons myself.
Semantics can be choppy waters to navigate sometimes. But while I'm by no means a language expert of any kind, I've always been interested in language and words and how they serve as the main medium for our communication with each other, and I often find the nuances of that communication of particular interest, and like to get perspectives from people that, because of their own life experiences, may see something I take to be correct about this subject differently from me.
You noted that you may choose different words to convey the same idea, depending upon whom you're talking to. I often do the same, in the interest of trying to make a point without generating any unnecessary and distracting heat, whether it involves posting a comment or speaking to someone IRL. There are a few other places where I post comments that I often write a bit differently than I do here for a couple of reasons, so your point about that is well taken.
Thanks again for your response. I find it quite useful in my thinking on this. BTW...interesting what you said about reading Inferno using a verso translation. Have never had that kind of experience, since my only language skills are of the English variety. I'm of Italian descent, my father being 1st generation from a large Italian family in Philly. He spoke and understood Italian, but never passed that skill on to me. Wasn't much call for it in the small central Kentucky town where I was born and raised, being as ours was the only Italian name in the phone book. Which not only covered the town but the whole county. ;-)