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Why doesn’t the Open File dialog show tagged folders?

Why do the Open File and Save File dialogs normally behave differently with respect to tagged folders? It’s a question of semantics.

January 26, 2019 Macs, Technology

Beyond mere appearance: Dark Mode, the semantics of colour, and text without print

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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?

October 11, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Last week on my Mac: Pistols at dawn

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When Microsoft changes the way it represents emoji, no one worries. When Apple proposes to, many are up in arms. Why?

August 7, 2016 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Words, meaning, and thought 3: pain and primes

The moral is to see a doctor when you have pain in the gut, not to consult a linguist.

June 2, 2015 General, Language

Words, meaning, and thought 2: a poverty of primes

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?

May 7, 2015 General, Language

Words, meaning, and thought 1: heresy and hokum?

The relationship between language and thought has exercised many great minds. Is Goddard and Wierzbicka’s attempt any advance?

May 5, 2015 General, Language

Ambiguous sentences

Some well-phrased English sentences which are more than a match for any duck/rabbit.

March 16, 2015 Language

What does they mean?

An illustration of how we sometimes need more than just syntax and semantics to parse a simple sentence.

March 3, 2015 General, Language
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