unexplainable
the things that are hard to explain in words
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unexplainable
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”
― Jack Gilbert, The Great Fires
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
Analogies are a poverty of language
Since the beginning of time, the answer to “What do you do?” could be answered with one word.
Finance. Sales. Education.
But today, most jobs exist in liminal spaces: Kind of like this but also not quite that.
It may have been fair to think that any explanation longer than a one-word, universally understood, job title was just an attempt to look
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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
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
― Anthony Doerr
"How to clarify a concept you can't articulate:
1. Change mediums. Draw it. Photograph it. Sing it.
2. Change levels. Explain what is one level up (bigger picture) or one level down (finer details).
3. Change fields. What would this concept look like in different fields?"
(James Clear newsletter)
