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The psittacist is someone who is unable to avail himself of the words as one avails oneself of the numbers; this is, when one purposes to mean the number fifty, one can mean it differently, either by the direct expression, 50, or by an indirect method, as the multiplication of 10x5, or 25x2, or the sum of 40+10, or 30+20, or 49+1, etc. The psittacist is unable to construe his own constructions and, pursuantly, he parroted others’. He finds “right” such idiom as “I fall in love with you”, ridiculously metaphorical as it is, being disabled from meaning it otherwise, as with an “I am affected by a love towards you”, which construction is not only literal but also very worthy to be imitated.
The psittacist is someone who is unable to avail himself of the words as one avails oneself of the numbers; this is, when one purposes to mean the number fifty, one can mean it differently, either by the direct expression, 50, or by an indirect method, as the multiplication of 10x5, or 25x2, or the sum of 40+10, or 30+20, or 49+1, etc. The psittacist is unable to construe his own constructions and, pursuantly, he parroted others’. He finds “right” such idiom as “I fall in love with you”, ridiculously metaphorical as it is, being disabled from meaning it otherwise, as with an “I am affected by a love towards you”, which construction is not only literal but also very worthy to be imitated.
