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threads.netthe power of language
The people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
"economy of words"
“So thinking is prior to language. What language contributes is to firm up certain particular ways of seeing the world and give fixity to them. This has its good side, and its bad. It aids consistency of reference over time and space. But it can also exert a restrictive force on what and how we think. It represents a more fixed version of the... See more