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Language is a leader’s charisma. It’s what empowers them to create a mini universe—a system of values and truths—and then compel their followers to heed its rules.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Social media thwarts us from expanding our vocabulary. You get algorithmically punished for using words that aren’t familiar. Why is this? It is a “demotic force” that is throttling our language and our expression.
Men tend to follow a generation later: in other words, women tend to learn language from their peers; men learn it from their mothers.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Suit yourself is something Arslan says because it is something Joan says. She taught him, and now he has taught Ludmilla.
Maggie Shipstead • Astonish Me: From the Booker Prize 2021 and Women’s Prize 2021 shortlisted author of GREAT CIRCLE
Similar to how you start using the slang of your friends without realizing, you should be careful with who you read: you’ll start subconsciously adopting their mannerisms.
The way a person communicates can tell us a lot about who they’ve been associating with, who they’ve been influenced by. How far their allegiance goes.
Amanda Montell • Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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