The Pursuit
That final clarification is important. It is to say that language doesn’t simply allow us to describe reality as we experience it. Rather, it actively constitutes those experiences — it brings into being the everyday world for us: a world of tables and chairs, cats and dogs, planets, Great Aunt Jemima, and so on.
David Mattin • The Worlds to Come – Instalment One
“Language doesn’t just make things—it assembles, cobbles together, entire worlds and all the relations within.”
Language makes it possible for us to navigate places and relationships; to express needs and requirements; t... See more
Matt Felten • Words as Material
World we try to symbolize with this language is a world of process, change, differences, dimensions, functions, relationships, growths, interactions, developing, learning, coping, complexity. And the mismatch of our ever-changing world and our relatively static language forms is part of our problem
This matters, because language is a form of power. It creates categories that help us interpret the world, and that which is not easily available in language is often ignored in thought itself. A shared vocabulary makes ideas more accessible while a lack of language can render an experience illegible. It can isolate.
Angela Chen • Ace
Maria Popova • The Dictionary Story: A Love Letter to Language Tucked Into a Delightful Fable About the Difficult Question of How to Be Yourself
words contribute to the compression of even more expressive ideas within the special reality of the World. They can signal members from non members. They shape an aesthetic of the World like the calls and songs of a bird species cutting through the noise of the jungle.