I know … Let’s build a wind-farm to power an oil field.
There’s that language thing again … Farms and fields … don’t they sound nice?
I know … Let’s build a wind-farm to power an oil field.
There’s that language thing again … Farms and fields … don’t they sound nice?
🔗 Doc Searls : Outlining vs. Formatting
via @dave
Not a new post - but highlights how the hijacking of language reaps confusion.
This post originated as a comment in another thread, but it made me think more - again - about how language is constantly being twisted to operate against people.
I wrote
“Language is powerful - …
Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity
I posted this link at the time it was published (2020).
It surfaced the other day through my DayONE - and I decided to repost it in the category ‘Language Is Important’- ‘Tom’ and I are on the same page.
“The game is free … but you could spend up to $1,000 US Dollars just to buy the assets you need to play the game.”
Another example of redefining language.
This from Paul Butler
‘Language Is Important’ - a new category now available on this blog.
“If, at the end of your show you say “Available where you get podcasts,” then my friend, you have a podcast. If you have to say “Only available on Spotify” (or some other exclusive service), good for you, but it’s not a podcast.”
💬 Dave Winer
… and I very much agree with him.
Language is important … and I am done with Corporates hijacking language so to appear better than they are.
The Crypto Crash Has Destroyed a Trillion Dollars in Wealth
I question the use of the word ‘wealth’.
The $1Trillion came from nowhere … and now it’s gone back to nowhere.
Building on an earlier thought Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended …
Bit by bit we are being divided and ‘taken out’ …
United we stand … divided we fall!
Sorry - just because we voted you in, or you own a newspaper or are a big strapping tech jock … whatever … ou are not ‘an elite’ … another example of language being co-opted to maintain the status quo.