[xmca] FW: The Wire imitates Dostoyevsky?

["Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>]

Just read this while reading Bruner's intro to Thinking and Speech::

In Dostoevsky's The Diary of a Writer: Five drunken workmen carry out a
complicated dialogue for five minutes, though the only word any of them
utters is a "forbidden noun not used in mixed company." Intonation and
circumstances determine its meaning in context.

 

Does anyone have an English version of this story you could post to the
network? There's a scene from The Wire at
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsnSVM1zM that seems based on FD's story. p

 

 

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