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2889694 No.2889694 [Reply] [Original]

>calling anything but a book, article or legal document, either printed or digital, "text"

Yeah no faggots, pictures aren't text, sculpture isn't text, text is something you can read through the medium of the alphabet in a linear fashion. Discuss.

pic related, one of the semiotician "text" people

>> No.2889707
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2889707

pictures aren't text? brilliant!

>> No.2889711

>>2889694
How about hieroglyphs?

>> No.2889715

>>2889694
Symbols(words) are arbitrary images dumbass.

>> No.2889726

>>2889715
words in a developed script are not symbols, since they have no meaning on their own. "A" doesn't denote anything except for a sound that you produce with your mouth. It is only a sequence of letters that produces meaning, which is why there is no text without writing.

>> No.2889730

>>2889726
What about languages where each word is one letter?

Also, "a" is a word in English.

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2889739

>>2889726
I don't even know if you're trolling of just really dense.

>> No.2889750

>text is something you can read through the medium of the alphabet in a linear fashion
By that definition your post is text. But then the greentext >implied that imageboard and message board posts aren't text.

>> No.2889799

bro anything with symbols is equivalent to text so yeah any discursivity is essentially text

>> No.2889804

>>2889726

what about a word like... say... "Nike"? is it a symbol?

>> No.2889837

Text is anything open to interpretation.

>> No.2889842

text is whatever you use the word text to mean

>> No.2889846

no guys, you've got it all wrong. a text is, in reality, a unit of non-vocal cell phone communication. get it right.

>> No.2889853

A test is homework.