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Originally Posted by mbyron
I'm gratified that you're working so hard just to please me, so it seems a little bit petty to say no. Words don't symbolize numbers, numerals do. But you're getting warmer!  |
Words are vocal symbols of ideas, entities, events, etc. I disagree.
I thought about correcting that to "refer to" rather than "symbolize," but where's the rhetorical fun in that?