RE: The US Government’s Metaphor Program

[cfabel]

Apropos this and the Recognitions?

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity" (Lovecraft).


C. F. Abel
Chair
Department of Government
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas 75962
(936) 468-3903




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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 6:47 AM
To: Dave Monroe
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Subject: Re: The US Government’s Metaphor Program

3. US Intelligence and metaphors. A research arm of the US government intelligence establishment wants to decode foreign languages through their metaphors. The reasearch agency is called the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). It is inviting organizations to propose tools to analyze metaphors in foreign languages, as a way of gaining a deeper understanding of those languages and cultures. Laudable idea, though some might wonder what federal spies might then do with that information. That is assuming that the information will make any sense at all after it is put through the bureaucratic wringer offlow diagrams and metrics.

One of the classic works on Shakespeare is Shakespeare's Imagery by Caroline Sturgeon in which, before computer anlaysis, she did the most thorough job of finding the patterns and groupings of Shakespeare's images......

Fascinating stuff....



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From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
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Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 4:25:25 AM
Subject: The US Government’s Metaphor Program

http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/podcast-the-us-governments-metaphor-program-and-lingodroids/