- published: 11 Mar 2013
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Semantics (from Greek: sēmantiká, neuter plural of sēmantikós) is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between signifiers, such as words, phrases, signs and symbols, and what they stand for, their denotata.
Linguistic semantics is the study of meaning that is used to understand human expression through language. Other forms of semantics include the semantics of programming languages, formal logics, and semiotics.
The word semantics itself denotes a range of ideas, from the popular to the highly technical. It is often used in ordinary language to denote a problem of understanding that comes down to word selection or connotation. This problem of understanding has been the subject of many formal inquiries, over a long period of time, most notably in the field of formal semantics. In linguistics, it is the study of interpretation of signs or symbols as used by agents or communities within particular circumstances and contexts. Within this view, sounds, facial expressions, body language, and proxemics have semantic (meaningful) content, and each has several branches of study. In written language, such things as paragraph structure and punctuation have semantic content; in other forms of language, there is other semantic content.
Sure hope you enjoy the conversation
Hope it was worth aggravating me
This guy is in line for my lady
If I could alter time just to change a situation
I hope one day you'll find the truth
About those two
The best friend and the lover
You'll soon discover that they never told you a God damn thing
It's been years since I've seen you
And I think it's about time that you knew
Everything you were denied and refuse
Will be coming back to haunt you
Double-crossed
Betrayed
You were lied to
And deceived
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
Sure hope you enjoy the conversation
Hope it was worth aggravating me
This guy is in line for my lady
If I could alter time just to change a situation
What? You can't think, are you kidding me?
This influential third-party catastrophe
Has got you so wrapped up that you can't breathe
Or even speak to me
Double-crossed
Betrayed
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I've made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison
I made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
I've made mistakes but I'm taking them back now
Dead set, caught up on my way out
Don't you know, for crying out loud
That this is so hard
(I'll politely decline
These words taste like poison)
I'll politely decline