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Study suggests that if your language's syntax blurs the difference between today and tomorrow as do, say, Chinese and German then you are more likely to save money, quit smoking, exercise and otherwise prepare for times to come. On the other hand, if you have three dollars in
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with, like, you know, interrogative intonation. [youtube=http://youtu.be/LGAMd-tT6fQ] In an earlier post, Mali talks about what teachers make.
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“People who fondly imagine themselves the subjects of their ‘own’ choices entirely will, in reality, be the most manipulated subjects, and the most incapable of being influenced by goodness and beauty. This is why, in the affluent Anglo-Saxon West today, there is so much pervasively monotonous ugliness and tawdriness
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Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. One cannot change this all in a moment, but one can at least change
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via Tony Judt: We speak and write badly because we don't feel confident in what we think and are reluctant to assert it unambiguously.
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via FT.com: But now the term seems to have slipped free of its mathematical moorings altogether: living “exponentially” involves having “quality time with yourself” and “living in your own truth”. Speaking from the vantage point of my own truth, I find some things are truer than others. Truest of
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Those in whom the Greek word lives only while they are hunting for it in the lexicon, and who then substitute the English word for it, are not reading Greek at all; they are only solving a puzzle. The very formula, "Naus means a ship," is wrong. Naus