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Studies in Economic Nationalism
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C. K. Ogden, the great semanticist and inventor of "Basic
English", is reported to have commented on the saying: "words are
convenient noises" by remarking that no more than one thousand of
them have any precise meaning. This is particularly true of
words relating to human affairs! The reason for this unsatisfactory
state of affairs is not hard to find. Social relationships
(political and economic) are extremely complex and involved;
social "realities" are changing almost as fast as a student can
commit their description to paper - or faster; emotions become
involved in matters affecting the happiness, the prosperity, and the
future of individuals and groups; and words often acquire explosive
political qualities even before they are clearly defined. Add the fact
that the situation, condition or relationship covered by a term changes
frequently - and often imperceptibly - thereby causing an eventual
need for redefinition, recognized only after more or less delay - if at
all. ,Life has a way of breading homonyms without anyone becoming
aware of them for a long time. The ve~bal jungle in which the man
in the street and the social scientist both live has become in recent
decades a 'very "dangerous place indeed
MICHAEL A. HEILPERIN - Personal Name
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Studies in Economic Nationalism
Economics
English
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