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Updated: May 19, 2025
It was Lulie's voice, raised in anxious protest. "Father, please." Her father sharply ordered her to be quiet. "Go on, Julia," he persisted. "Tell me what you want me to do." Again Little Cherry Blossom seemed to have difficulty in articulating. There was a quaver in her voice when she did speak. "Julia say," she faltered; "Julia sayee 'Jethro, you sell R.P." This was unexpected.
The nature of the symbols counts for nothing; the gist of the matter is in the perfect harmony between sayer and sayee as to the significance that is to be associated with them.
In animal language as much as in human there is a mind intentionally making use of a symbol accepted by another mind as invariably attached to a certain idea, in order to produce that idea in the mind which it is desired to affect more briefly, there is a sayer, a sayee, and a covenanted symbol designedly applied.
There is more true employment of language, more bona fide currency of speech, between a sayer and a sayee who understand each other, though neither of them can speak a word, than between a sayer who can speak with the tongues of men and of angels without being clear about his own meaning, and a sayee who can himself utter the same words, but who is only in imperfect agreement with the sayer as to the ideas which the words or symbols that he utters are intended to convey.
Song was as proud as a peacock, and wore "the smile that won't come off" as he flitted around the table waiting on every one. "Say, Missee Stella," he said, "Song all samee one cowbloy now, eh? What you sayee?" "Yes, Song, you have certainly followed instructions. You got your wolf that time, sure. How you likee shootee?" "No likee, Missee Stella.
"R. P.?" he said again. "Does 'R. P. mean is that supposed to stand for Horatio Pulcifer? Eh? Does 'R. P. mean Raish Pulcifer?" The control did not reply instantly. The light keeper pressed his question. "Does it?" he demanded. "Yes... yes," stammered the Blossom. "Yes, Julia say sellee Raish what he wantee buy." "Wantee BUY? What have I got he wants to buy?" "Julia she sayee you know.
Where these are present there is language; where any of them are wanting there is no language. It is not necessary for the sayee to be able to speak and become a sayer.
On the other hand, no ingenuity can torture "language" into being a fit word to use in connection with either sounds or any other symbols that have not been intended to convey a meaning, or again in connection with either sounds or symbols in respect of which there has been no covenant between sayer and sayee.
There is more true employment of language, more bona fide currency of speech, between a sayer and a sayee who understand each other, though neither of them can speak a word, than between a sayer who can speak with the tongues of men and of angels without being clear about his own meaning, and a sayee who can himself utter the same words, but who is only in imperfect agreement with the sayer as to the ideas which the words or symbols that he utters are intended to convey.
Where these are present there is language; where any of them are wanting there is no language. It is not necessary for the sayee to be able to speak and become a sayer.
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