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Inflationary language →

how fun is this? bobulate: Victor Borge on his invented “Inflationary Language,” where he embeds incremented numbers in words: See, we have hidden numbers in the words like “wonderful,” “before,” “create,” “tenderly.” All these numbers can be inflated and meet the economy, you know, by rising to the occassion. I suggest we add one to each of these numbers to be prepared. For instance...

Jul 28th

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Jul 27th

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Jul 27th

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Invasion →

“You find out that you, an organism, are competing for your house with a superorganism that knows how to do nothing but compete. You are not only competing in the most basic evolutionary sense; you are competing with a purely adaptive intelligence, and so you are competing with the force of evolution itself.” givemesomethingtoread: You think it’d be impossible to share your...

Jul 27th

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Does Language Influence Culture? →

givemesomethingtoread: New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish.

Jul 27th

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