Re: Wittgenstein & 'private language' (was: SemiOT: Revealing your conlanger status)

Mark P. Line scripsit:

> She took my blood pressure, she told
> me it was something like 85/40, and then I said, "Oh, now I know what this
> funny feeling is... I'm fainting...!". (Whereupon she marched me back to
> bed, and I didn't actually lose consciousness...)
Well, the difficulty there is that with a diastolic pressure of 40, your
brain wasn't getting enough oxygen to function properly, so it's actually
more surprising that you were able to talk at all.

> The point is that, for a little bit, I had no way of expressing what the
> sensation *was* -- not to my wife, and (above all) not to myself.
It's one thing to have an unnamable or indescribable sensation: it's
another to have one while you are partially aphasic from impaired
brain function.

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