Re:Pathologies of the attention economy
by smeagull on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @08:45AM
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If I'll annoy grammarians and pedants, and only they will think I'm ignorant, then that's okay with me.
Language isn't logical. It's a bricolage of things people have done to communicate. It's a mash-up of many different tools all trying to accomplish a hundred different things, and if people can't find a handy screwdriver, they may successfully use a butterknife instead.
Language isn't logical. It's a bricolage of things people have done to communicate. It's a mash-up of many different tools all trying to accomplish a hundred different things, and if people can't find a handy screwdriver, they may successfully use a butterknife instead.