unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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unexplainable
Reaching wide audiences requires all-terrain language, and the urgency of the present moment, amplified by chronological feeds, doesn’t allow for much stylistic variety. Efficiency is key — compressing as much information as possible to the least amount of words is the ideal of all communication.
While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See more
While I do agree that many areas of interaction, like... See more
sari and
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
The cure for over-summary, I think, is something akin to cultivation. States and maturity need good growing conditions and time. The wonder we should concern ourselves with: What else has been hidden by summary? What thoughts must we resist abridging? Those giant sequoias echo a reminder to ask ourselves, what are the unseen things today that could... See more
simonsarris.substack.com • Long Distance Thinking
“It is ironic that I was never categorizable and now I’m a category.”
Jimmy Buffett
George Orwell on politics and the english language:
What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing... See more
New discoveries often have to be conceived initially as variations of existing things,
even by their discoverers
, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.
even by their discoverers
, because there isn't yet the conceptual vocabulary to express them.