25 April 2006

I think some people have more to say than others. But I wish I did not think this. It more a testament to my parochial views on language than a fact about anyone else. I think that what we say is exhausted by what discretely utter. But this cannot be right. What we say is determined by the totality of our behaviour in a given context. This includes linguistic behaviour, of course, but that is only one piece in the multifarious puzzle. Some of us behave without purpose, and others without direction, but we all nonetheless behave. When we do, we say.