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Richard Ford: I was slow to learn to read, went all the way through school not really reading more than the minimum, and still to this day can't read silently much faster than I can read aloud, but there were a lot of benefits to being dyslexic for me because when I finally did reconcile myself to how slow I was going to have to do it, then I think I came very slowly into an appreciation of all of those qualities of language and of sentences that are not just the cognitive aspects of language: the syncopations, the sounds of words, what words look like, where paragraphs break, where lines break.
The two words come from the Latin root "pater," which means "father."
I'm going to show you colored words.
And so the old imam worried that his words were falling on deaf ears.
Then one day I told him, "Reg E., what is subordination for verbal measures to tonal consideration?" (Laughter) And he handed me a black-and-white printed out thesis on a poet named Etheridge Knight and the oral nature of poetry, and from that point, Reggie stopped becoming the best to me, because what Etheridge Knight taught me was that I could make my words sound like music, even my small ones, the monosyllables, the ifs, ands, buts, whats, the gangsta in my slang could fall right on the ear, and from then on, I started chasing Etheridge Knight.
The key, to my Arab brothers and sisters, is to throw in random good words to put people at ease as you're walking down the aisle.
I was barely 12 years old, and when the shock wore off, my mother's words were ringing in my ears.
In other words, kill the men; kill the children; if you see any virgins, then you can keep them alive so that you can rape them.
I can try to tell you what it was like, but you'll never know what it was like, and the more I try to explain that I felt lonely, I was the only human being in 5.4 million square-miles, it was cold, nearly minus 75 with windchill on a bad day, the more words fall short, and I'm unable to do it justice.
In other words, our fears make us think about the future.
And I'm going to say a few words about each one this morning.
As when we say we "gather" our ideas, to "put" them "into" words, and if our words aren't "empty" or "hollow," we might get these ideas "across" to a listener, who can "unpack" our words to "extract" their "content."
There's an influential taxonomy by the anthropologist Alan Fiske, in which relationships can be categorized, more or less, into communality, which works on the principle "what's mine is thine, what's thine is mine," the kind of mindset that operates within a family, for example; dominance, whose principle is "don't mess with me;" reciprocity, "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours;" and sexuality, in the immortal words of Cole Porter, "Let's do it."
When I asked people their associations with the wheelchair, they used words like "limitation," "fear," "pity" and "restriction."
Two words that made a colossal difference in my life.
And it was a story that was told with words and pictures, exactly what I do now for a living, and I sometimes let the words have the stage on their own, and sometimes I allowed the pictures to work on their own to tell the story.
So I loved writing so much that I'd come home from school, and I would take out pieces of paper, and I would staple them together, and I would fill those blank pages with words and pictures just because I loved using my imagination.
And I'd make my own comics too, and this was another way for me to tell stories, through words and through pictures.
And all I can really do is hope, not to policymakers or politicians, because as much as I'd like to have faith that they read my words and do something, I don't delude myself.
A lexicon is a body of words that describes a domain.
But we don't have the words yet, so we add a third technology.
And now we've got the words, and we can apply the special sauce: the translation.
We get the words up in a window and then apply the magic.
In other words, it's useless.
Only those three words and she left the airport.
Over 85 percent of abusers are men, and domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships, in other words, in families, the last place we would want or expect to find violence, which is one reason domestic abuse is so confusing.
Because if a picture is worth a thousand words, then a picture of a face needs a whole new vocabulary.
I have never, ever forgotten the words of my grandmother who died in her exile: "Son, resist Gaddafi.
In other words, who controls the world?
Or in other words, I sometimes say, fire needs air.
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