language
How Language Shapes Thought | Lera Boroditsky
youtube.comThe world is built by those who can think, but it is ran by those who can articulate.
Threads
threads.netthe power of language
To share parts of ourselves as a way of undoing aloneness, as a method of connection, as a form of putting words to something someone else might not yet have the words for, feels like shining a flashlight on something that would otherwise stay hidden, or as Ocean Vuong said, building fire escapes for each other.
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
-The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Untranslatable
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an online dictionary of idioms and expressions contributed by native speakers all over the world
a beautiful passage from sublime’s innaugural zine on why language matters, in the context of building a different web.
“His own opinion, which he does not air, is that the origin of speech lie in song, and the origins of song in the need to fill out with sound the overlarge and rather empty human soul.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace