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.

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.

More ‘Language Is Important’ Here

“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.

More ‘Language Is Important’ Here

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.

More ‘Language Is Important’ Here

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!

More ‘Language Is Important’ Here

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.