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Same word different contexts1/18/2024 ![]() The number of words humans produce are 'just enough' to allow you (and hopefully another party) to disambiguate the content. I am also familiar with the ideas of sentence structure like having SVO and how we can use that to help figure out the meaning of words. Related to this but probably a bit too lengthy is how we go about understanding the meaning of these words. repeating a word's name with different meaning) will make it easier or harder to comprehend a sentence. ![]() So the question is, if there is some sort of way to tell if adding new meanings to a word (i.e. I would've assumed that every word has to have exactly one meaning in order for a thing to be understood. When too much is too much.īasically I don't understand how it's possible for us to understand these sentences. But I would like to know what the balance is, when we are allowed to map new meanings to existing words (that is, create new words using existing words as their name). Obviously this doesn't make any sense because we created too many same-named words. Say we even created 10 or so verbs called "I", similar to how "plant" as a verb has multiple meanings (plant a plant, lay something on the ground). And then we have 10 different things we've called "I" (like how "Sage" has like 50 things called sage). As an extreme example, say we converted the word "I" to a verb. So I am wondering how we are able to determine the meaning and form of these words whose meaning is totally different in different places in the sentence. I want to use my money to plant some plants on the landscape. I want to use my green to green the landscape with some greens. So we can say "They greened the landscape." to mean they planted lots of plants covering the landscape. But I don't see how it's doing it.īut we can get more complex than just using nouns, and start converting these words in verbs too! Dual formed words. I kind of think of a band when I hear that name, like Fleetwood Mac and Three Dog Night, so somehow my brain is trying to make sense of the new input. When I read dogwood I don't think "dog", maybe because I would probably see that related to some botany event. So perhaps I couldn't guess what it is without learning it's meaning explicitly. It has "berry" in the name so maybe it's a fruit like boysenberry. When I see coffeeberry, I don't think "coffee", even if I don't know what it is. But other than that, there is not much literally there. ![]() There is adding extra description as in sage. But I don't quite see what context exactly is coming into play when I read these sentences or see some words. ![]() I understand that "context" is an important factor. They saw some poison oak and poison greens in the greens, but not Poison or green. They went to the forest and walked by some sage, holding some sage next to the sage. Wondering what is the process I am going through to realize the meaning of these words which have multiple totally different meanings. But a "sage" is a type of person as well. Poison is also a band, and a bunch of other stuff. But you could have poison greens, which are actually poisoned. įor plants we have poison oak, which is a type of plant, not "poisoned" oak. We have green which is a color, and greens which is plants, or money, or I could imagine it being a sports team like the Red Sox, but even if we didn't capitalize it we would know the red sox is a team, not red. We have an orange which we easily know is a fruit, but is also a color. ![]()
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