• AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    Semantics are for children. Straight up contradiction is where mature people say “No it isn’t” to each other to really practice being annoying.

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      Semantics are for children.

      https://academic.oup.com/jos?login=false

      Journal of Semantics covers all areas in the study of meaning, with a focus on formal and experimental methods. It welcomes submissions on semantics, pragmatics, the syntax/semantics interface, cross-linguistic semantics, experimental studies of meaning, and semantically informed philosophy of language.

      “When he was eating his juice and crackers at lunchtime, Jonathan enjoyed a little light reading.”