From: Bill Lucy 

Out of darkness, Frank Haber says...
> You're kidding.  You want a short definition of semiotics?  Are you crazy,
> man?  It takes a career semioticist to bullsh*t his way through that.  It's
> not bullshit, though.  I think of it as language inchoate, of the primal
> pre-noun idea of a noun.  But I'm a simple guy.
>
> This doesn't look bad.
>
> http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
>
> "Rhetorical Tropes" set me off on the above.  But my brain
has rotted a lot
> since school.

I read the introduction, and know have a headache. It seems that semiotics is the
parent of many disciplines, including anthropology and linguistics.

In that context, I'm having even more of a difficult time understanding how
the word could be used to denigrate someone.

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