...Meaning in Primitive Languages', supplement to CK Ogden and IA Richards, The Meaning of Meaning 16:47 And though a linguist should pride himself to have...words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteem'da learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. John...

...industrious alter wisdom; so that language is hut the instrument conveying to us things useful to he known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Bahel cleft the world into, yet if he have not smdied the solid things in them as well as the words...

...industrious after wisdom; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have...as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only. Hence appear the many mistakes which have made learning generally so unpleasing...

...this he agreed with his English contemporary John Milton who said in his essay Of Education in 1644: 'though a Linguist should pride himself to have all...Words and Lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteem'da learned man, as any Yeoman or Tradesman competently wise in his Mother Dialect only'.22 'Solid...

...in 1644) had written 'that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to be known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues ... if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons he were nothing...

...point that context — showing the basis of ideas being dressed in words — is key to the definition. "Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into," wrote Milton, "yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons,...