Sublime

specialists in linguistics maintain that although grammars differ from one another, their basic forms – which Noam Chomsky calls their deep structures – are universal (i.e. at the deepest neuropsychic level, there exists a universal [or ‘archetypal’] grammar on which all individual grammars are based); an entirely new discipline, sociobiology, has

Words have fixed meanings. That is, our language expresses the concepts and categories that we think in terms of.

People can be objective and can speak objectively, but they can do so only if they use language that is clearly and precisely defined, that is straightforward and direct, and that can fit reality.

In language, it helps to think of word as an approximate notion.

Activities in general are viewed metaphorically as SUBSTANCES and therefore as CONTAINERS:

it’s about trying to counteract the deep, unconscious gender stereotypes about men as leaders and women as followers.

grammar as over the concepts of language. Are the rules of grammar—word order, syntactic structures, word structure, sound structure—encoded in our genes, or do they reflect cultural conventions?

in the postmodern view, “The individual status and position of those we group together and call ‘women’ and of those we call ‘men’ are argued to vary so greatly over time, space and culture that there is little justification for the use of these collective nouns.”