(Q - Droopy: No, that's not it, that reminds me of something Michel, we were talking there on the discord about the meaning of words and French, and that it's a
a little diluted over time. The words in French, et cetera, and the acceptance that we ourselves make with the words, and how do we understand them And what I wanted to say is-.
what it's still current to be able to finally have an understanding of the words including the hunt compared to 93. Isn't there something that is a little bit different now?)
MB: But what word are we talking about? We talk about the texts, the enigmas or the words that we are…,
(Q - Droopy: No, I'm talking about words in general, texts, words and understanding sentences.)
MB: But in reality, it is certain that let's say, the general acceptance of words, the one we retain today, is for many of them different from what it was 30 years ago, at least, it has evolved a little.
For example, I'm going to take an example that has nothing to do with hunting, but today, there is a word that is completely parasitic in my eyes, it's “complicated”. Today, we can hear it in all the media, we hear it on everyone's lips. When something is difficult, we no longer say that it is difficult, we say that it is complicated.
Ah well yes, everyone says, it's complicated, oh yes it's going to be complicated. Ah, the traffic is complicated. No, it's not complicated, I mean driving your car on the highway in traffic jams, it's not complicated, it can be difficult, but it's not complicated...
(Q - Droopy: while “complicated” is a synonym for difficult at the same time.)
MB: No, it's not a synonym in the strict sense of the term, no, no, complicated, it indicates a level of complexity, complexity, it calls for reflection, et cetera.
Difficult, it may just require physical strength. It's difficult to abseil for example, but it's not complicated, it's not complicated to abseil, but it's difficult and that's an example, in short, we're not going to don't dwell on it. So beyond that, the real filter that there may have been on the meaning to be given to the words, to the terms used in hunting, is always this famous filter of madits.
The madits it generated, moreover, that's exactly the case, it generated a real dictionary. There are words, the vocabulary of owls. But in reality, the owl shouldn't have a vocabulary. The owl should stick to common vocabulary.
And that's a bit of the danger, that is to say that the habit has been developed of giving words a meaning from the moment they are used in the context of hunting, a particular meaning, a special acceptance. But in reality, apart from the fact that in the design of the puzzles, there is a communicative vocabulary which is intended to give color, to give atmosphere and to tease somewhere, or even to confuse sometimes. But apart from that, which everyone knows now and has understood well, I believe, the meaning of the words should not pose too many problems. And I think that the speculations which are all the rage at the moment around the meaning to be given to certain words sometimes border on conspiratorialism by wanting to unravel too much, and we end up there, for once, by making it more complex.
MB: But what word are we talking about? We talk about the texts, the enigmas or the words that we are…,
(Q - Droopy: No, I'm talking about words in general, texts, words and understanding sentences.)
MB: But in reality, it is certain that let's say, the general acceptance of words, the one we retain today, is for many of them different from what it was 30 years ago, at least, it has evolved a little.
For example, I'm going to take an example that has nothing to do with hunting, but today, there is a word that is completely parasitic in my eyes, it's “complicated”. Today, we can hear it in all the media, we hear it on everyone's lips. When something is difficult, we no longer say that it is difficult, we say that it is complicated.
Ah well yes, everyone says, it's complicated, oh yes it's going to be complicated. Ah, the traffic is complicated. No, it's not complicated, I mean driving your car on the highway in traffic jams, it's not complicated, it can be difficult, but it's not complicated...
(Q - Droopy: while “complicated” is a synonym for difficult at the same time.)
MB: No, it's not a synonym in the strict sense of the term, no, no, complicated, it indicates a level of complexity, complexity, it calls for reflection, et cetera.
Difficult, it may just require physical strength. It's difficult to abseil for example, but it's not complicated, it's not complicated to abseil, but it's difficult and that's an example, in short, we're not going to don't dwell on it. So beyond that, the real filter that there may have been on the meaning to be given to the words, to the terms used in hunting, is always this famous filter of madits.
The madits it generated, moreover, that's exactly the case, it generated a real dictionary. There are words, the vocabulary of owls. But in reality, the owl shouldn't have a vocabulary. The owl should stick to common vocabulary.
And that's a bit of the danger, that is to say that the habit has been developed of giving words a meaning from the moment they are used in the context of hunting, a particular meaning, a special acceptance. But in reality, apart from the fact that in the design of the puzzles, there is a communicative vocabulary which is intended to give color, to give atmosphere and to tease somewhere, or even to confuse sometimes. But apart from that, which everyone knows now and has understood well, I believe, the meaning of the words should not pose too many problems. And I think that the speculations which are all the rage at the moment around the meaning to be given to certain words sometimes border on conspiratorialism by wanting to unravel too much, and we end up there, for once, by making it more complex.