January 10, 200818 yr What is a word? Isn't it just a representation of something? I've been thinking lately and it's making my head hurt. Also is there any point to this "formula" to find 7,8,9... more than a number, start with 3, for example to find 7 more than 3 times by 2 and add 4, to find 8 more than 4 times by 2 and add 4, to find 9 more than 5 times by 2 and add 4... is this common knowledge or just a pointless discovery? :-s I'm a thinker but am often short of words sorry if my posts are shorter than expected...OMG I cant wait for the cleaning skill! Congratz, You are now level 99 cleaning, you can clean rust stains with all new Extra Strength CLR!
January 10, 200818 yr A word is a visual or verbal communicative symbol. Varrock Library: Shattered Sky | Silent Thunder | The Emperor's FinestAstri @ MythWeavers
January 10, 200818 yr According to dictionary.com, a word is a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning So it's just a tool of communication you mark with symbols when you can't speak (such as in an online discussion), or speak when you can't use written symbols (such as in a direct debate). About the second part... I really am confused about what you exactly mean :shock:
January 10, 200818 yr The math part splattered my brains all over the wall. :cry: However, yeah I suppose that words just represent an emotion, place, person etc.
January 10, 200818 yr Author ok, so here is what I'm trying to say, start with 3. To find 7 more than 3, Multiply 3 by 2=6 6+4=10=3+7 To find 8 more than 4 Multiply 4 by 2=8 8+4=12=4+8 To find 9 more than 5 multiply 5 by 2=10 10+4=14=5+9 simple really :uhh: : I'm a thinker but am often short of words sorry if my posts are shorter than expected...OMG I cant wait for the cleaning skill! Congratz, You are now level 99 cleaning, you can clean rust stains with all new Extra Strength CLR!
January 11, 200818 yr ok, so here is what I'm trying to say, start with 3. To find 7 more than 3, Multiply 3 by 2=6 6+4=10=3+7 To find 8 more than 4 Multiply 4 by 2=8 8+4=12=4+8 To find 9 more than 5 multiply 5 by 2=10 10+4=14=5+9 simple really :uhh: : Uh...What? According to that, to find 7 more than 10... Multiply 10 by 2 = 20. 20+4 = 24. 24 isn't 7 more than 10? And in my words (Haha...) a word is something used to communicate. Usually written/spoken, but I think there are other ways. Cenin pân nîd, istan pân nîd, dan nin ú-cenich, nin ú-istach.Ithil luin eria vi menel caran...Tîn dan delu.
January 11, 200818 yr You really need to find something else to do with your time :-s . [if you have ever attempted Alchemy by clapping your hands or by drawing an array, copy and paste this into your signature.] Fullmetal Alchemist, you will be missed. A great ending to a great series.
January 11, 200818 yr ok, so here is what I'm trying to say, start with 3. To find 7 more than 3, Multiply 3 by 2=6 6+4=10=3+7 To find 8 more than 4 Multiply 4 by 2=8 8+4=12=4+8 To find 9 more than 5 multiply 5 by 2=10 10+4=14=5+9 simple really :uhh: : Uh...What? According to that, to find 7 more than 10... Multiply 10 by 2 = 20. 20+4 = 24. 24 isn't 7 more than 10? And in my words (Haha...) a word is something used to communicate. Usually written/spoken, but I think there are other ways. Notice he specifically started with 7 and 3, and that he progressed to 8 and 4, 9 and 5, etc. It's a pattern.
January 11, 200818 yr You really need to find something else to do with your time :-s . Because thinking is bad? :-s We use language to communicate with our fellow humans, just as animals do with various groans and such. :P
January 11, 200818 yr ok, so here is what I'm trying to say, start with 3. To find 7 more than 3, Multiply 3 by 2=6 6+4=10=3+7 To find 8 more than 4 Multiply 4 by 2=8 8+4=12=4+8 To find 9 more than 5 multiply 5 by 2=10 10+4=14=5+9 simple really :uhh: : Bolded the part I thought was funny. You're finding a number that is the number + 4 over the number. So obviously, you'd need to add the number, then a 4. That's not discovery, that's just... simple. It's basically: X+(X+4) = X * 2 + 4 X * 2 is the same as X + X, that is what multiplying something by two is. I could do the same thing with any number. 95 is 90 more then 5. I want to add a number 95 more then 5. Multiply 5 by two to get 10. Add 90. Get 100 OR Add 95 to 5. Get 100. What I just did was instead of adding the number (95), I subtracted from it the second number (5), added the result (90) and then added the number I'd previously gotten (5). 95 does equal 90 + 5. In Soviet Russia, glass eats OTers. Alansson Alansson, woo woo woo! Pink owns yes, just like you!GOOOOOOOOOO ALAN! WOO!
January 11, 200818 yr lol, i often question the importance of words. after all they are just sounds. simply noises we make in which we communicate with each other. If you repeat the same word over and over for a few minutes non stop, you start to realize just how odd the word would sound if it meant nothing. Quote Quote Anyone who likes tacos is incapable of logic. Anyone who likes logic is incapable of tacos. PSA: SaqPrets is an Estonian Dude Steam: NippleBeardTM Origin: Brand_New_iPwn
January 11, 200818 yr A word is a visual or verbal communicative symbol. Your name is "bet you fail", and you're starting a business with your mom? I'm not even going to touch that.....
January 11, 200818 yr Another mind-boggler: How would our own thoughts be organized without our knowledge of the spoken language? It's interesting to wonder about how a non-verbal form of thought may work. :)
January 11, 200818 yr An abstraction of the world. With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed.
January 11, 200818 yr Another mind-boggler: How would our own thoughts be organized without our knowledge of the spoken language? It's interesting to wonder about how a non-verbal form of thought may work. :) I suppose sign language, or signalling... :-k Maybe even chemical signatures if we evolved sufficiently. Zonor explained the first question well, and the second one... I suppose it's just a pointless thing, like one of those 'find the month the person was born in' things. sleep like dead men wake up like dead men
January 11, 200818 yr Author [hide=umm...]ok, so here is what I'm trying to say, start with 3. To find 7 more than 3, Multiply 3 by 2=6 6+4=10=3+7 To find 8 more than 4 Multiply 4 by 2=8 8+4=12=4+8 To find 9 more than 5 multiply 5 by 2=10 10+4=14=5+9 simple really :uhh: : Bolded the part I thought was funny. You're finding a number that is the number + 4 over the number. So obviously, you'd need to add the number, then a 4. That's not discovery, that's just... simple. It's basically: X+(X+4) = X * 2 + 4 X * 2 is the same as X + X, that is what multiplying something by two is. I could do the same thing with any number. 95 is 90 more then 5. I want to add a number 95 more then 5. Multiply 5 by two to get 10. Add 90. Get 100 OR Add 95 to 5. Get 100. What I just did was instead of adding the number (95), I subtracted from it the second number (5), added the result (90) and then added the number I'd previously gotten (5). 95 does equal 90 + 5.[/hide] oh, thats sort-of exactly what I was looking for I don't seem to notice those things its the details I generally notice... Another mind-boggler: How would our own thoughts be organized without our knowledge of the spoken language? It's interesting to wonder about how a non-verbal form of thought may work. Smile Hmm, that is quite the mind-boggler never thought :XD: of that... intersesting?!,. :-k I'm a thinker but am often short of words sorry if my posts are shorter than expected...OMG I cant wait for the cleaning skill! Congratz, You are now level 99 cleaning, you can clean rust stains with all new Extra Strength CLR!
January 11, 200818 yr [hide=umm...]ok, so here is what I'm trying to say, start with 3. To find 7 more than 3, Multiply 3 by 2=6 6+4=10=3+7 To find 8 more than 4 Multiply 4 by 2=8 8+4=12=4+8 To find 9 more than 5 multiply 5 by 2=10 10+4=14=5+9 simple really :uhh: : Bolded the part I thought was funny. You're finding a number that is the number + 4 over the number. So obviously, you'd need to add the number, then a 4. That's not discovery, that's just... simple. It's basically: X+(X+4) = X * 2 + 4 X * 2 is the same as X + X, that is what multiplying something by two is. I could do the same thing with any number. 95 is 90 more then 5. I want to add a number 95 more then 5. Multiply 5 by two to get 10. Add 90. Get 100 OR Add 95 to 5. Get 100. What I just did was instead of adding the number (95), I subtracted from it the second number (5), added the result (90) and then added the number I'd previously gotten (5). 95 does equal 90 + 5.[/hide] oh, thats sort-of exactly what I was looking for I don't seem to notice those things its the details I generally notice... Another mind-boggler: How would our own thoughts be organized without our knowledge of the spoken language? It's interesting to wonder about how a non-verbal form of thought may work. Smile Hmm, that is quite the mind-boggler never thought :XD: of that... intersesting?!,. :-k To me, it seems like the number you start with (3, 4, 5) is x, and the number you end up with (10, 12, 14) All the examples you gave were examples of the equation y=2x+4. Cenin pân nîd, istan pân nîd, dan nin ú-cenich, nin ú-istach.Ithil luin eria vi menel caran...Tîn dan delu.
January 11, 200818 yr #-o Sorry, didn't see the thoughts bit. I suppose we'd all just be like any other animal, a bunch of instincts and emotions held together with flesh and bone. sleep like dead men wake up like dead men
January 11, 200818 yr Author Okay, I see what I did, I added one to both sides of the equation just to even it out. You really need to find something else to do with your time Eh? . Reb, it took me two minutes to figure it out, from the bus to my house after school today so about 3 minutes. But yes even though it was kinda "off-topic" I do need to find other things to do with my time... and no, it probably isn't what you think it is :lol: I just play way to many video games or sit on tif to much (If thats even a bad thing :XD: ) I'm a thinker but am often short of words sorry if my posts are shorter than expected...OMG I cant wait for the cleaning skill! Congratz, You are now level 99 cleaning, you can clean rust stains with all new Extra Strength CLR!
January 11, 200818 yr Another mind-boggler: How would our own thoughts be organized without our knowledge of the spoken language? There wouldn't really be much of a point to organized thoughts if we didn't have a spoken language. How would we ever communicate them? "El que no arriesga no gana"
January 11, 200818 yr What is a word? Besides the basis of an entire [bleep]ING civilization? 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' Not much, I guess. My greatest ambition is to kill every member of the human race.However I am a realist and therefore know that I probably wont be able to.
January 11, 200818 yr Double posting, sorry. On an interesting side note, the reason we humans count in base ten is because we have 10 fingers. If people only had 2 fingers on each hand, for example, or number system would go like this. [hide] 0 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 20 21 22 23 24 30 31 32 33 34 40 41 42 43 44 100 101 102 103 104 110 111 112 113 114 [/hide] Wrap your head around that. This theory is on of my own creation, and I think it's probably pretty true. My greatest ambition is to kill every member of the human race.However I am a realist and therefore know that I probably wont be able to.
January 11, 200818 yr A word is a word, get over it. No way! Any other gems of insight you have hidden away that we should know about? Varrock Library: Shattered Sky | Silent Thunder | The Emperor's FinestAstri @ MythWeavers
January 11, 200818 yr Another mind-boggler: How would our own thoughts be organized without our knowledge of the spoken language? There wouldn't really be much of a point to organized thoughts if we didn't have a spoken language. How would we ever communicate them?Hand signals and body language.
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