Semantic Transparency

Famous quotes containing the words semantic and/or transparency:

    “Watt’s need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “Life is filigree work.... What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.”
    —Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)