Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Languaging helps you name the category you are creating (by framing a different problem with a different benefit):
Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard
Derrida’s radical assertion was that words, rather than referring to objects or ideas, actually construct reality, or at least our experience of it (which, as Kant had demonstrated, is as close to reality as we’ll ever get). Although such a notion, at first glance, might seem implausible and even outrageous, an examination of the history of the
... See moreWarren Ward • Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought
The best definition comes from the linguist Max Weinreich: a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
Steven Pinker • The Language Instinct
with all of this flux, language remains understandable to us. It remains coherent as long as the messiness is bounded by the rules or principles of grammar. In this way, language is an excellent example of messy coherence, or in other words coherent heterogeneity. We can accommodate differences within boundaries that ensure coherence. (For another
... See moreBoudewijn Bertsch • Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making Into the Fabric of Our World ED02
An individual language is anything that is, or once was, the mother tongue of a group of human beings.
Bill Mayblin • Introducing Linguistics
Standard Language Ideology Complex (SLIC)
Standard language : langugage has one best variety that is more legitimate than other devalued varieties (i.e. specific accent)
One-nation-one-language : the natural state of a society is to be monolingual (common language within nation as key identity marker)
Language purity : stability and integrity of
linguistics
anna • 45 cards
(make us) question long-held notions about language itself. This chapter identifies numerous such inventional sites, including perseveration (rigidity, obsession, and routinization), echolalia (repetition of words and phrases), and self-stimulation.