They don't encode the cultural context within which the statement is
intended to exist. Is it heretical? Obsequious? Positively unctious?
Purely informational? How does its connotation change in the context of
the commentary in heiroglyph surrounding it?
I would say the glyphs sketch a pattern which, when fed to a set of
language-interpretation meme-complexes turn out memes which may or may
not correspond to those which the original author intended.
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Alexander Williams {zander@photobooks.com ||Member: Evil Geniuses
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