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• n  a specialist in the study of meaning

• Day after day, newspapers and TV showed the Japanese-American semanticist with his academic Bushido fully aroused.
• In a year when politicians are deeply suspect, what better way to woo voters than by pronouncing a plague on both our major parties? Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, 69, famed semanticist .
• WHEN I use a word," declared that famed semanticist, Humpty Dumpty, "it means just what I choose it to mean.

• semiotician

Quotes

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• Paul Krassner in Winnipeg Free Press
  He was a self-taught semanticist, and really tried to parse the language and get rid of the magical power that profanity held over people,Krassner explains. "Although Lenny was a pioneer in breaking through those taboos, the irony is that...