Stop and Go

Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 03:28:13 -0400

Camille Scaysbrook wrote:
 
> The semiotics and the actual meaning are two different things.
> It's like if you saw a big red octagonal sign with `GO' written on it.
> You'd probably stop before you actually obeyed the `go'.
 
An intersting idea.  I think I would indeed stop for the go sign. 
 
Semiotics, semiology--though Saussure does distinguish between a
"linguistic sign" and a "men at work" type of sign, he includes both in
his proposed "semiology."  Perhaps Kari ougt to add this root and its
variants to the forbidden topic list immediately.
  
As for "actual meanings"...well, I'll leave that one for Jim.  I'm off
on some rare atavistic impulse to go camping for the weekend...

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Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu