Mastodawn

🧵 "Moi, quand j'utilise un #mot, [...] il signifie exactement ce que j'ai décidé qu'il doit signifier, ni plus ni moins."
- #humptydumpty dans De l'Autre Coté du Miroir #LewisCarroll

= idéologue -> "leurs mots, définis arbitrairement [...] désormais sans relation à ce qui n'est pas eux, ne sont plus ouverts à la moindre discussion."

= perversion ultime du #langage qui ne peut plus être commun.

cf #fascisme / extremisme

#marmion #science #connaissance #patrickmoreau #citation #danger

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cob 5d ago

-> favorise l'inconséquence et l'irréflexion des messages postés = renforce la novlangue à visée politique -> cf #humptydumpty.

Mots à œillères -> mots qui s'émancipent par rapport à leur référent/à leur propre concept.

La signification d'un mot demeure ouverte = fait l'objet d'une négociation entre 2 interlocuteurs.

cf. "Tu vois ce que je veux dire."

= " [...] le #langage est une réalité dialectique en même #temps que dialogique."

#marmion #science #connaissance #patrickmoreau #citation

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Yvonne ‘looks undocumented’May 4

@aaron.rupar 6 week embryos are considered “babies” to the life-begins-at-conception crowd so why not an 11yo too?

“ a word means what I say it means“
#humptydumpty

rospe in frantumi Apr 19

𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗬 𝗗𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗬
Chi ha rotto le uova?
(Easter egg)

Una Pasqua senza sorprese, ovvero senza Pace (né per la Palestina né per l’Ucraina, Myanmar, Congo, Sudan, Etiopia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan ecc.), senza tregue e con sempre meno diritti.

#leggitutto

> https://rospeinfrantumi.altervista.org/empty-dumpty-chi-ha-rotto-le-uova/

#easteregg #pasqua2025 #humptydumpty #emptydumpty #giocareconleparole #nonsense #senzasenso #senzapace #senzatregua #senzadiritti

EMPTY DUMPTY Chi ha rotto le uova? | rospe in frantumi

Una Pasqua senza sorprese, ovvero senza Pace (né per la Palestina né per l’Ucraina, Myanmar, Congo, Sudan, Etiopia, Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan ecc.), senza tregue e con sempre meno diritti. Una Pasqua che per qualcuno sarà anche senza uova, letteralmente, perché buona parte di quelle di gallina sono state ritirate per la peste aviaria e le altre... a romperle c’ha pensato lui, il nostro Testa d’Uovo platinato

rospe in frantumi

rospe in frantumi Apr 19

𝗘𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗬 𝗗𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗧𝗬
Chi ha rotto le uova?
(Easter egg)

Una Pasqua senza sorprese, ovvero...

#leggitutto

> https://rospeinfrantumi.altervista.org/empty-dumpty-chi-ha-rotto-le-uova/

#easteregg #pasqua2025 #humptydumpty #emptydumpty #giocareconleparole #nonsense #emptydonnie #uova #influenzaaviaria #linguistica #cialtronaggine #bugie #senzasenso #senzapace #senzatregua #senzadiritti

EMPTY DUMPTY Chi ha rotto le uova? | rospe in frantumi

rospe in frantumi

fhekland Mar 14

SEND US EGGS, OR WE WILL INVADE AND ANNEX GREENLAND!

#HumptyDumpty #HumptyTrumpfy

https://www.newsweek.com/us-asking-denmark-extra-eggs-amid-greenland-dispute-industry-chief-2044796

US Asking Denmark for Extra Eggs Amid Greenland Dispute: Industry Chief

The reported request comes amid rising tensions between Washington and Copenhagen over Donald Trump's promise to take Greenland.

Newsweek

karlender.net Mar 4

2025/054

File under: #35mm #amLand #BelieveInFilm #dartingtonHall #devon #england #FilmIsNotDead #filmphotography #flora #HumptyDumpty #karlender25 #kodakPortra400 #leicaM4p #mauer #nokton40mm #path #steinmauer #swe #wald #weg #wood
More: https://karlender.net/5815/

2025/054

Expecting Humpty Dumpty. Location: ///skater.tissue.countersPermalink: flickr

karlender.net

PUNK irratia Mar 1

·· azkenak airean - last broadcast ··

the vibrators
humpty dumpty
public disturbance
the queers

Entzun / Listen (streaming):
https://punkirratia.net:8443/punk

#thevibrators #humptydumpty #publicdisturbance #thequeers #FediRadio #punk #streaming #NowPlaying #music #musica #musique #musika #MastoRadio

Droppie [infosec] 🐨

Mar 1

{{Quote purloined from https://blog.oup.com/2022/11/the-return-of-humpty-dumpty-who-is-the-ultimate-arbiter-of-meaning/}}

These are the famous words of Humpty Dumpty, a character in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass (1871). His conversation partner, Alice, is rather sceptical:

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master——that’s all.”

Over the past 36 hours here in the Fediverse, bigly so in reddit, & numerous interwebz blogs & techzine articles, there's so soooooooooooooooo many Humpty Dumpties on the loose, making up all sorts of histrionic shit predicated on imaginative extrapolations & seeing conspiracy everywhere. Humans are just so fscken weird 🙄🤦‍♀️

#Mozilla #Firefox #ToS #EULA #HumptyDumpty

The return of Humpty Dumpty: who is the ultimate arbiter of meaning?

In philosophy of language, as well as in many court opinions (e.g., Liversidge v. Anderson, 1942), Humpty Dumpty is held up as an example of how not to think about meaning. Contrary to his claim that the meaning of his words is determined solely by his intentions, there is broad agreement that what words mean is not solely up to us—we can change their meanings over time, but that requires a group effort, and something like consensus.

OUPblog