Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Richards Blog Post
I think what Richard's is talking about in his article is that how you cannot rely on the dictionary definition of a word alone, because so many other things come into play when trying to give a meaning to a word. For example, a word that we commonly use in America might mean something completely different in another country. Also, the context of the other words around it can give it a completely different meaning. For example, the dictionary definition of the word "mad" usually means that someone is upset about something. But if you use it in the sentence "When Jimmy rides his skateboard he has mad skills" it completely transforms the meaning of the word into something positive. This has a lot to do with what we have been learning about remix because of the way that we use different words and contexts to give alternate meanings to words that are different than the dictionary definitions that we are provided. At some parts the article was hard to follow, but I feel like I got the overall message of what he was trying to say.
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