Some like Granny Welby but Langer's my woman

Dale notes how Lady Welby will apply her proto-Griceian theories on, of all people, her own grandchildren.

As Dale notes, "she attended no formal institution" (I should quote his actual words). So surely he could not 'use' students as others do.

Still, Dale seems to prefer the love of Langer, as I do.

"Langer", Dale notes, in his online "Theory of Meaning" "put it [i.e. Peirce's complications] nicely"

Dale then goes on to quote extensively from Langer at her charming best:

(Langer is relying on material from "Meaning of Meaning"):

"Charles Peirce, who was

probably the first person to concern himself seriously with semantics, began by making an inventory of all 'symbol-situations,' in the hope that when all possible meanings of 'meaning' were herded together, they would show empirical differentia whereby one could divide the sheep from the goats."

"But," Langer adds -- her real surname was other --

"the obstreperous flock, instead of falling neatly into a few classes, each according to its kind, divided and subdivided into the most terrifying order of

icons,
qualisigns,
legisigns,
semes,
phemes, and
delomes,

and there is but cold comfort in his assurance that his original 59,049 types can really be boiled down to a mere sixty-six" (Langer (1942), pp. 55-56)."

I think I need a delome before I go on.