language
Names are powerful.
They shape how we think — both consciously and subconsciously.
Here are 10 name changes that flipped public perception:
Nathan Baughtwitter.comThe people who get to impose their metaphors on the culture get to define what we consider to be true.
~Lakoff & Johnson
The power of qualitative research is its magical ability to generate description. Where quantitative measures, qualitative describes the qualities of the human experience
Peter Spear • The Question of Why
“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
Disgrace Quotes by J.M. Coetzee
Love bombing, gaslighting, and the problem with pathologising dating talk
James Greigdazeddigital.com
From Donald Knuth “The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.”
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.