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| | NTU Info Centre: Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Many languages use [[gesture]]s, [[sound]]s, [[symbol]]s, or [[word]]s, and aim at [[communicationcommunicating]] concepts, [[idea]]s, [[meaning]]s, and [[thought]]s, though the problem of linguistic [[vagueness]] often rears its head when we try to distinguish between these aspects. |
 | | Philosophers such as [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]], [[W. Quine]], and [[Jacques Derrida]] have disputed the possibility of such a rigorous study of language by questioning many of the assumptions necessary for such a study, and have put forth their own views on the nature of language. |
 | | The writer, linguist and [[Star Trek]] actor [[James Doohan]] devised the original vocabularies of [[Vulcan (Star Trek)Vulcan]] and [[Klingon LanguageKlingon]] speech which have been developed by others into full languages. |
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