Sunday, August 31, 2008

Watch your language!

Language liberates and confines, illuminates and blinds; language giveth and language taketh away.

Language is a blessing and a curse: it can be used to clarify or distort, to elucidate or obscure, to enlighten or deceive, to inform or inflame.

Language is Jacob's ladder, the magic beanstalk; language is the delimiting vessel of a bonsai tree, the whalebone stays of a Victorian corset.

Navigate carefully and language is your path to the heavens; misstep and it's a minefield that will blow your starship to smithereens.

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