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-{{a|philosophy|[[File:Humpty.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A “child of a child,” yesterday.}}{{quote|Un petit d’un petit <br>
+{{a|philosophy|[[File:Humpty.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A “child of a child,” yesterday.]]}}{{quote|
+Un petit d’un petit <br>
 S’étonne aux Halles; <br>
 Un petit d’un petit <br>
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 :—Luis d’Antin van Rooten, ''Mots D’Heures: Gousses, Rames'', (1967)}}
-To construe a meaning; to select a metaphor; to form a sentence in any language is to systematically deploy a certain narrative account over all others. To assign a certain meaning to a certain string of symbols is to actively discriminate in favour of that meaning over any others one could imaginatively construct.
+To utter a sentence is to prefer one model of the world; one “[[narrative]]” over the infinity of alternatives one could construct. To ''construe'' one is to do likewise: the success of the ''communication'' such an utterance and construal represents depends on how far the speaker’s and listener’s respective narratives coincide — how far they share the cultural conventions on which the language is founded. To understand a language is to understand the cultural conventions which it represents.
-The beauty of the cultural conventions around language is that they allow individuals who share those conventions to communicate but they are loose enough to allow miscommunication, and multiple meanings through the instrument of [[metaphor]].
+If speaker and listener do not share cultural conventions, the result is usually incoherence: a monolingual English speaker cannot understand a French sentence, and that is that. Not necessarily, though: ask a French speaker to read van Rooten’s poem to an English speaker and watch what happens.