Linguistics

Jay, one vote in favor!

The topic can be found here.

It wouldn’t be high traffic, but I wouldn’t be adverse to such a forum either.
I rather enjoy etymological examination.

I enjoy it as well as anyone else, but I don’t think that it necessarily warrants its own Forum.

Say Pav, this isn’t about me voting against you in your debate with Tab, is it?
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LOL

No, it’s purely a signal-to-noise thing. It might work as a Sub-Forum of Philosophy, or it may be well paired with Creative Writing, but I don’t think it survives as its own Forum.

Creative Writing & Linguistic Studies

I think something like that would work.

I think it should be a subforum as well. The difficulty is that it could go with many categories. I would not place it with ‘creative writing’ since it is a topic for discussion, to assemble thoughts on the matter or learn something. Not a scribble or something like that. If it should be placed with a ‘writing’ category I would use ‘essays and theses’ since that is a part of the ‘philosophy fora’ and entails the philosophical spirit as well as the discussion of thoughts and evaluations.

However, this kind of hermeneutic research into the use of a word by an individual or in a given time is a regular part of philosophical thought in any situation. That category seems misused for not so serious topics as well though, so I would think ‘essays and theses’ would be the best choice. What do the rest of you think?

Linguistics is most properly placed as a Social Science in my opinion.
It is the science of social communication.

Creative Writing being deemed an unacceptable Forum for it, I’d probably then go either Philosophy or Psychology.

Language has a psycho-analitic value, linguistics has a social value and hermeneutics has a linguistic value. There places for psychology in a wide sense and for social questions in the wide sense. Linguistics however has no place. There will always be an overlap, but to me a new subforum should be about a linguistic meaning and therefore I still vote for essays and theses. Should we put all xhoices in a vote?

If we place it as it’s own forum, not a sub-forum, under the section “experimental forums”, then I will gladly take on moderating responsibility for the forum.

Great! The only thing I do not grasp is why you would prefer this above the subforum idea?

  1. obscurity sucks
  2. I would say it falls under the classification of, “other”, for ILP and “other” is the experimental forum.

But would that ‘other’ not entail that the linguistic forum stay ‘experimental’ for ever since it will never be used so often so as to warrant a forum of its own?

About obscurity:
Is it not the case that too many forums obscure things and that too few forums with too many subforums obscures things as well? Should a re-evaluation take place for the layout of ILP?

We have chatted about layout in the past, and will in the future; it’s part of running one of these places.
We make changes over time as needed.

To the Linguistic bit.
I think it’s worth bringing up to the staff to weigh in for now.
If it get’s an in-favor of “yes” then placement can be worried about.

By, “Experimental Forum,” do you mean, “Kiss of Death?”

Yay! Bring it up with the staff!!!

OK look at me as a partner in crime with objet. I think that it could have some real interesting possibilities. To edit my original post:

This is very much an international forum, even though English is spoken here, it is not the first language of some and English is not always the same in all countries… I think that we could learn from different languages and gain greater understanding of each other if we explore language. Correct or near correct interpretation is crucial in discussions. How many times has a thread been locked or gone to pot because of misunderstanding? A subforum can answer questions and explore interpretations of language. I think our friend has a very good idea.

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The Linguistic subforum is here!!
But…I can’t see any topics…
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It says I don’t have the required permission to access it.

What’s that all about?

Maybe we’re not important…
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