Why do the Open File and Save File dialogs normally behave differently with respect to tagged folders? It’s a question of semantics.
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We’re still writing most text in black on a white background on displays with wide colour and high-resolution. Why not use colour for additional meaning?
When Microsoft changes the way it represents emoji, no one worries. When Apple proposes to, many are up in arms. Why?
The moral is to see a doctor when you have pain in the gut, not to consult a linguist.
Semantic primes represent “the complete inventory of simple universal concepts that are embedded in the lexicons of all (or most) human languages.” Do they suffice?
The relationship between language and thought has exercised many great minds. Is Goddard and Wierzbicka’s attempt any advance?
Some well-phrased English sentences which are more than a match for any duck/rabbit.
An illustration of how we sometimes need more than just syntax and semantics to parse a simple sentence.
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