Jim, Maybe I did not want to *make* a point with the Humpty-Dumpty story but *made* a point unintentionally! :) By the way, I think Humpty-Dumpty/Lewis Carroll approached the concept of= 'meaning' more from the point of view of mathematical logic than from the= point of view of natural language. Now *I* won't kill *their* joke by further expanding on this. This whole theme is treated very well in Dougl= as Hofstadter's 'Godel, Escher, Bach'. Paul J