To: RLK
Shakespeare was able to conjure up words and phrases which expanded thinking. Madison Avenue and the like create words and phrases to achieve the opposite effect. Language is the vehicle of thought. Organizing words represents concepts, and that is what language is all about. Organizing words rationally is called thinking.
English is very flexible. It can be spliced together so that whole concepts can be represented in words, which can either expand or contract the ability to think. Orwell wrote about this at length.
36 posted on
06/15/2003 11:33:57 PM PDT by
Mortimer Snavely
(Is anyone else tired of reading these tag lines?)
To: Mortimer Snavely
You said it better than I could.
37 posted on
06/15/2003 11:37:53 PM PDT by
RLK
To: Mortimer Snavely; RLK
Here's a site to which you two might like to submit some of your favorite words. It gives you an opportunity to expand upon what they mean to you.
Here's two entries that appear to be speaking your language already.
You might also want to check out the social engineering entry. Maybe it makes sense to you.
60 posted on
06/16/2003 10:09:26 PM PDT by
Avoiding_Sulla
(You can't see where we're going when you don't look where we've been.)
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