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I am continually amazed at how difficult people seem to find reading and understanding text, including diverse creatures like academics. My PhD<\/a> brought the three corners of the semiotic triangle closer to each other: ‘the concept in my brain’, ‘the text in front of my eyes’ and ‘the real thing in the real world’. Deployment is lagging behind. It never gets boring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am continually amazed at how difficult people seem to find reading and understanding text, including diverse creatures like academics. My PhD brought the three corners of the semiotic triangle closer to each other: ‘the concept in my brain’, ‘the text in front of my eyes’ and ‘the real thing in the real world’. Deployment … <\/p>\n

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