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Words and Meaning

Oh you words, Visual and audible representatives of reality, Children of conception that were nurtured by Perception and feelings, under the auspices of Reason which loaded you with meaning for The sole purpose of communication for the Exchange of ideas, Why Don't you retain your denotations after leaving The lips that have pronounced you but instead You venture into a labyrinth of connotations creating thus Confusion and misunderstanding that make it Difficult for ideas to be transmitted intact? (C) Demetrios Trifiatis 16 January 2016

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Funom Makama

Date: 1/19/2016 8:40:00 AM

Beautiful and well expressed lines in their finest. A great and well deserved 7

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/19/2016 12:04:00 PM

Thank you my friend, Funom Makama, for your lovely visit and comment!

Caycay Jennings

Date: 1/18/2016 8:51:00 PM

Love it - the sarcasm and cleverly delivered points so well spiked and delivered ... CayCay

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/19/2016 5:51:00 AM

Thank you dearest CayCay, for your delightful visit and comment!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 1/16/2016 7:11:00 PM

Huh??? Just joking!! Got your meaning loud and clear!! good one, Demetrios.

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/17/2016 12:38:00 AM

Hope so! Thank you for "getting" the meaning, dear Andrea. You were, for me, one of whom the meaning would be "got" by!

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 1/16/2016 2:52:00 PM

- Words, thoughts and ideas ...... can easily create confusion and misunderstanding - Great written as always, dear Demetrios - Best wishes for a wonderful weekend :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/16/2016 6:04:00 PM

The confusion comes when one is expressing an idea in a given degree but the other understands it in another degree of intensity. Thank you for your kind visit and lovely comment, dear Anne-Lise!

Bl Devnath

Date: 1/16/2016 2:13:00 PM

i feel better understanding through better communication. It's a great philosophy hiding behind the literature. Nicely said about denotation and connotation. Loved always my lovely friend,bl

Bl Devnath
Date: 1/16/2016 6:18:00 PM

Yes, my friend. Thanks

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/16/2016 6:07:00 PM

Language is just the audible and visual representation of our experience. I no way the word "pain" can make us feel the pain of someone else in the degree he has lived pain. We just imagine the pain we ourselves have been through. Thank you my friend for your kind comment and visit!

Nette Onclaud

Date: 1/16/2016 12:01:00 PM

if we could only listen from the heart.. such wisdom so fine, demetrios.. huggs

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/16/2016 6:14:00 PM

We can only transmit our experiences through language and hope that the other person had similar experiences in similar degrees so as his understanding to pay justice to what we tried to communicate in the first place , dear nette. Thank you for your gracious visit and fine comment!

Miraj Raha

Date: 1/16/2016 8:20:00 AM

This poem begs for a question that screams to be answered,Sir.Terrific write.

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/16/2016 10:16:00 AM

The answer , my friend, Miraj, is: Each person translates every word he hears into his own experience. For instance ach one of us understands, hunger, or cold, or pain, or unhappiness in the degree he has experienced: hunger, cold pain or unhappiness! If one was never hungry it is impossible to understand hunger and so on, that is why it is difficult to communicate because denotation although one connotations are many. Thank you for visiting!

White Sage

Date: 1/16/2016 4:44:00 AM

clever write Demetrios...that question's great...pondering

Demetrios Trifiatis
Date: 1/16/2016 10:22:00 AM

Let us utter the word orphan of which the denotation is having no parent or parents. If one is sixty years of age and still his parents live how is it possible to understand the meaning of that word in its entirety? It is impossible! So it is with every word which each one translates to his own experience in order to relate to it. Unfortunately though experiences are not of the same degree therefore the meaning eludes us and as a result we do not understand a thing in exactly the same way, although we use the same word. Thank you Wise Sage!