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Originally Posted by neeeel
It seems quite handy that you can just define words however you want them ( "eg song = knowing something by heart, not a definition I have ever heard before) in order to support what you are claiming.
Context defines words not us. If I said "Man that cheeseburger changed my life" it could mean that after eating it I changed the direction of my life ie opened a burger restaurant or left my wife to raise grass fed cattle. But most likely it just meant that I really enjoyed the cheeseburger. You couldn't know for sure without looking closer at me and the context in which I said it.
If you are unfamiliar with the correlation between songs and knowing something by heart it is bc you are a 20th century western individual with CDs, Laptops, radios, and pandora. Pretty ignorant. How would you know a song if you were a first century Jew if you didn't know if by heart? How could you sing it if you didn't know if by heart? Archaeological and written data have demonstrated clearly that music was an integral part of daily life in ancient Israel/Palestine. These songs were actually a big part of the day to day culture of the time. So people sang these songs, often the same songs, over and over again sometimes passing them down from generation to generation. So imagery of a "new song" would stick out to a first century Jew. New songs were not as common and a new song would only have been created to capture/express an important "NEW" emotion/experience/feeling by the person creating it (not something passed down from the previous generations).
But w/o knowing context behind the text one would completely misinterpret what this person wrote and tried to express.
Last edited by Ace Acumen; 08-05-2015 at 03:42 AM.