Vocabulary is power. Language empowers and excludes. It elevates and
humiliates. Language records stories and presents them as impartial
records, when they are anything but.
Vocabulary exists to provide insights into the worlds of specialists and enthusiasts and hobbyists the world over.
Control
over the meaning of words is control over meaning itself. We give
meaning through words. Remove meaning through words. We prioritize with
words. We ignore with words. What does and does not exist in the public
Imagination is based on what we have words to describe. The taboo and
the unspeakable are controlled by those who control the words we use.
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