words matter
“Japanese people feel relieved once you put a name to something,” said Mitsuo Takeda, a judge of the Shodoshima contest and an artist who designed a large installation featuring a bug-eyed yokai large enough to walk through. “If you are pulling grass and you get a cut and you wonder what happened,” he said, “if you think, ‘Oh, it is just a yokai,’
... See moreNew York Times • A Japanese Island Where the Wild Things Are
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our imaginations shape the experiences we design, and the experiences we design shape our imaginations.
And language is a fundamental tool in architecting both. The details and specificity and intention of it constructs our beliefs about how the world is, and can unlock all of the new ways we might hope it to become.
And language is a fundamental tool in architecting both. The details and specificity and intention of it constructs our beliefs about how the world is, and can unlock all of the new ways we might hope it to become.
Olivia Vagelos • We Are Not the Only "Who"
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is it mere coincidence that these terms move further away from their specific usage and towards a neutered, politically neutral meaning?
charlie • Do Words Mean Anything Anymore?
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Our language choices change how we use our time and energy. For every word we use to describe where we want to go, there's another word that we're walking away from.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess
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On one hand, there is an importance in gaining clarity when you name certain things. On the other hand, there is a danger that you lose all nuance, that you’re basically trying to elevate your personal comments and personal experience by invoking the higher authority of psychobabble
Delia Cai • Esther Perel Thinks All This Amateur Therapy-Speak Is Just Making Us Lonelier
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incessant radical change, is not describable in a language that assumes continuity and a common experience of life.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
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Language is more durable than content. Words outlive their definitions.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
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“Quiet Quitting” started as a way for Gen-Zers to communicate with each other the reality that you can, in fact, not sublimate your entire identity and all of your time to a job and not get fired…..that you can just treat your job as a j-o-b, not as the sole determent of your value as a person…and that you can especially do this if your job treats
... See moreAnne Helen Petersen • Bed Rotting and Loud Quitting
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Web3 technology represents a significant advancement, but its current use of capitalist language and metaphors can be alienating. By reimagining these metaphors, we can inspire more projects to utilise Web3 technology for the greater good
Anna Rose • The Metaphors We Organise By
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