Greg Detre
Thursday, November 21, 2002
digital DJ � play different music for different people
look at geographical downloads for music from kazaa at different times???
Henry: if you have �a bride wears a red kimono� vs �a bride wears a white dress�, do google search on �red kimono� vs �white dress� and look at national origin of webpages
trying to differentiate different cultural knowledge to show why sentences aren�t contradictory
different cultural corpora will have some nouns as common vs rare � use that to try and culturally relativise different propositions???
aaron sloman:
mr finkelstein�s daughters are redheads
redheads are all over the country
therefore: mr finkelstein�s daughters are all over the country
fleas larger than 2mm in height are tall
tall things are greater than 2m
therefore: �???
idiom: something where you can�t pull the words apart and put them back together and construct the meaning compositionally