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Tenderness is the language of the young children, of those who need the other.
He lowered himself, he lived his entire human existence practicing the real, concrete language of love.
And their understanding of syntax suggests that they have their own language and grammar.
This sense of language may even go beyond simple communication.
And one of his most profound insights was the importance that language plays in shaping our thoughts and opinions.
The regime's control of language goes even further, eliminating words from the English language to create the official dialect of Newspeak, a crudely limited collection of acronyms and simple concrete nouns lacking any words complex enough to encourage nuanced or critical thought.
In his essay, "Politics and the English Language," he described techniques like using pretentious words to project authority, or making atrocities sound acceptable by burying them in euphemisms and convoluted sentence structures.
But even more mundane abuses of language can affect the way we think about things.
If they're talking about the deceptive and manipulative use of language, they're on the right track.
Language is the currency of politics, forming the basis of society from the most common, everyday interactions to the highest ideals.
Orwell urged us to protect our language because ultimately our ability to think and communicate clearly is what stands between us and a world where war is peace and freedom is slavery.
How far back does modern language go?
Chris Anderson: Do you have a hunch or a hope for what the answer to that is? Murray Gell-Mann: Well, I would guess that modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier.
I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.
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And I think it explains why partisans on both sides of the aisle keep reaching for this, frankly, antiquated, early modern language of civility precisely when they want to communicate that certain people and certain views are beyond the pale, but they want to save themselves the trouble of actually making an argument.
You may not see Ku Klux Klan robes, you may not see burning crosses, you may not even hear outright white supremacist language.
You're not showing any impairments in memory, language, or cognition ... yet.
After the tipping point, the glitches in memory, language and cognition are different.
Essentially, what they learned is that children in these families are hearing so many fewer words each day that by the time they are three years old, there's this enormous disparity in their learned language.
Chris Anderson: So Robert spent the last few years think about how weird human behavior is, and how inadequate most of our language trying to explain it is.
Their arms are crossed, their legs are crossed, their body language is saying, "What am I going to learn from this lady who talks fast about painting and sculpture?"
Or the police officer who said that understanding the emotional dynamic between people in a painting helped him to read body language at a domestic violence crime scene, and it enabled him to think twice before drawing and firing his weapon.
I was used to measure their moves and to gauge their emotional state by watching their body language and looking into their eyes.
And so that's what I'm trying to do with my work, is to take these numbers, these statistics from the raw language of data, and to translate them into a more universal visual language, that can be felt.
It's an intricate, communicative language that an epidemic of glass would simply wipe out.
Language is a powerful tool.
We have language.
All this art history that I had been absorbing helped me to realize that painting is a language.
Painting is a visual language where everything in the painting is meaningful, is important.
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