Morbillivirus Paramyxovirus

As Kramer notes,

the scent of a lion means 'run' to an antelope.



And measles should mean different things to different people.



Putnam once told Grice, "You are too formal". "I was offended: first, who is _he_ to tell me?". "Second, etc." On the first front, Grice was offended by Putnam's double standard. The man's claim to fame was to reject ordinary language as 'hopelessly informal'. For Putnam, there is a division of _linguistic_ labour. What things ultimately mean is what they mean to a scientist. His famous (or as we say in the Grice club, infamous) claim to fame is that the taste of twater is HYZ, not really H20.

If Putnam were right, as he is not, what



Those spots mean


is not really, measles (cfr. Jerome, "Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it, but only _once_")

but

Morbillivirus Paramyxovirus.

--

JL



From wiki:


"Measles is an infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus." "It prokes some odd spots, oddly not on the lungs but on the skin".