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Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
Dictionary dump (unformatted): a/an : “A was modified from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the eagle. In Hebrew it was an ox, and in Greek it was a “symbol of a bad AUGURY in the sacrifices.” The distinction between a/an happened around the 1300s. aardvark : South African “earth pig” aaron’s serpent : “something so powerful as to swallow up mi
... See moreLanguages change and evolve organically. But it is perhaps paradoxically necessarily that languages must remain mostly unchanging — mostly common between their speakers — such that change can be recognized and contextualized, rather than simply disorienting.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Language did not function as a storehouse of words, from which users could summon the correct items, preformed. On the contrary, words were fugitive, on the fly, expected to vanish again thereafter. When spoken, they were not available to be compared with, or measured against, other instantiations of themselves.
James Gleick • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
paragon : the perfect example of something.
slipshod (adj) : a sloppy lack of precision.
concordance : an alphabetical list of all usages of a word in a corpus.
presumptuous : taking liberties and overstepping boundaries with assumpitons.
How Language Shapes Thought | Lera Boroditsky
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"When we fail to critically examine dominant terminology and discourses, our worldview becomes shaped by external agendas, often without our consent. However, consciousness of language's constructive role allows us to reclaim agency over our self-perception and values and allows us to actively participate in reshaping language to articulate diverse
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