To a blind man, pawn shop and porn shop are one. To an unintelligent man, oversleeping and sleeping over are opposites.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: language porn semantics opposites blind pawn oversleeping pawn-shop porn-shop unintelligent



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Ambition’ is ‘greed’ rebranded.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: ambition consumerism greed materialism semantics branding general-semantics



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There is absolutely nothing feminine about the colour pink, or, anything bad-luck'ish about the colour black — in itself.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: language feminism meaning black symbolism color semantics pink colour bad-luck general-semantics



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The rich are poor without the poor's acknowledgment of money.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Tags: money rich meaning value semantics poor general-semantics social-constructs acknowledgment



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If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is to ask where the results can be applied. The hard pressed man, with his back against the wall, finally unearths the researches of another mathematician B as the locus of the application of his own results. If next B is plagued with a similar question, he will refer to another mathematician C. After a few steps of this kind we find ourselves referred back to the researches of A, and in this way the chain closes.

Alfred Tarski

Tags: science logic math mathematics semantics logistician



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