Comments on: Language Games http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/09/23/language-games/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:03:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: reader http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/09/23/language-games/comment-page-1/#comment-176034 reader Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:19:14 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/?p=784#comment-176034 I don't know you, never met you. I am just passer by who happen to come across your blog. My comments were influenced by two points 1) "bad habit" 2) "This habit drives some of my friends crazy, as they feel that it is tantamount to lying" The work Fake didn't really catch my attention as much as the above 2 did. Based on the information you provided i came to a conclusion that the habit was developed when you were in High School. Now habit by definition is "habituated routines of behavior that are repeated regularly, tend to occur subconsciously," So the act of faking/practicing is subconscious. Till now there is no negativity. #2 provides the negativity. A third person feels its almost like lying. Mind is fickle. Experiences in High School were so motivating that your mind is not ready to let go. If you are lying then it is faking, if you are not then its practicing. One doesn't lie when learning a language. I don’t know you, never met you. I am just passer by who happen to come across your blog. My comments were influenced by two points
1) “bad habit”
2) “This habit drives some of my friends crazy, as they feel that it is tantamount to lying”

The work Fake didn’t really catch my attention as much as the above 2 did.

Based on the information you provided i came to a conclusion that the habit was developed when you were in High School. Now habit by definition is “habituated routines of behavior that are repeated regularly, tend to occur subconsciously,”

So the act of faking/practicing is subconscious. Till now there is no negativity.

#2 provides the negativity. A third person feels its almost like lying.

Mind is fickle. Experiences in High School were so motivating that your mind is not ready to let go.

If you are lying then it is faking, if you are not then its practicing. One doesn’t lie when learning a language.

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]]> By: janet http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/09/23/language-games/comment-page-1/#comment-174944 janet Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:40:00 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/?p=784#comment-174944 Aren't you lucky -- you just moved in with a scholar with an area of expertise in Wittgensteinian language games! She has a copy of On Certainty on her bookshelf at the moment and might even have a copy of Philosophical Investigations kicking around you could borrow ;) And she is always happy to talk about Ludwig... Aren’t you lucky — you just moved in with a scholar with an area of expertise in Wittgensteinian language games! She has a copy of On Certainty on her bookshelf at the moment and might even have a copy of Philosophical Investigations kicking around you could borrow ;) And she is always happy to talk about Ludwig…

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