language
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in
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That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
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Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
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From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
i wish more people knew psychological impact of using the word “but” -
it can negate all that came before it in the listener’s ears. often acting as an unintentional dismissal
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