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“This is an odd epoch. It takes heroes very suddenly, very young, then drops them just as quickly.”
Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought, Mocky. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.
when you learn another tongue, you learn the way another people see the world, the universe.”
We live in a world of isolated communities, each hardly touching its neighbor, each speaking, as it were, a different language.”
If there’s no word for it, how do you think about it? And, if there isn’t the proper form, you don’t have the how even if you have the words.
An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented. I am invented. I am not a round warm blue room. I am someone in that room;
Sometimes you want to say things, and you’re missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That’s how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn’t exist.
Canceling out bad deeds with good is a linguistic fallacy that’s gotten people in trouble more than once. Especially if the good deed is in the offing.
