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                                              September 6-20, 2006

One reason word-play works          Another reason: playing with the
is that similar sounding            sounds of words might be a tool
words often have a related          for getting at the way language
derivation and meaning.             works.

                                                    Make the reader
                                                    conscious of
                                                    connotation,
                                                    rather than
                                                    use it to
                                                    manipulate.


For that first function,            For the second function
the disconnects between             the disconnects are the
sound and meaning are               core of the subject.
points of failure...



   etymology
   as a tool
   to illuminate
   meaning.

     the true structure of
     ideas presumed to follow
     the history of a changes
     in meanings?





   Someone mentioned in
   passing (in a review               NO_D
   in "The Wire"), Sun
   Ra's "bullshit etymologies".

      Sun Ra frequently
      plays with
      language in odd
      ways, for example
      he insisted that
      the the bible was
      not the good book,
      but the "code            good = cod = code
      book".
                                  Or something.
      He claims to have
      perceived hidden              "I'm talking about
      meanings, using his            equations."
      study of ancient
      literatures and so        [ref]
      on... but he often
      seems to be working
      with puns rather          The point then is not that what Sun
      than any established      Ra said is bullshit, exactly, but
      academic etymology.       that the scholarship he claims to
                                support it with isn't really there.

                                     If every connection he made could
                                     be looked up in the Oxford English
                                     Dictionary, would it make his
                                     ideas any better?



   "Omni relates to all, not just one, not
   Uni. You gotta get past oneness, at least
   get to twoness. The[n] you get attuned the
   right way, 'cos you got the at-two-en-ment"
   (Shore 1980: 48).

   "The one is alright, but I like the
   attunement because it is of the atwo-en-ment"
   (Fiofori 1970a: 17).

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