Don’t Even Think About Semiotics


From a friend whose field is closely related to linguistics and whose master’s program required a whole damn lot of it:

Mufasa: This is linguistics. you can study any aspect of language you want and you will always find structure. Simba: But what is that shadowy place over there? Mufasa: That is semantics. You must never go there.

Simba is instructed by his father about the territory (not the map)

Comments

  1. chigau (違う) says

    I tried to watch The Lion King on DVD.
    I didn’t make it past the opening credits.
    .
    The last time I used the word “semiotics” in a sentence was in a university linguistics class in the early 1970s.
    .
    maigad i hated that class

  2. Crip Dyke, Right Reverend Feminist FuckToy of Death & Her Handmaiden says

    @richardelguru:

    those leave me quavering.

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