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Sadly, about 40 percent of us will hear those three words within our lifetime, and half will not survive.
In other words, I needed to build something very much like a HAL but without the homicidal tendencies.
In other words: white people.
Now that may seem like a strong reaction from my friend to the words of a total stranger, but she's not alone.
They have been bouncing around from century to century since 1492, when in the first grammar guide of the Spanish language, Antonio de Nebrija, set a clear and simple principle for our spelling: "... thus, we have to write words as we pronounce them, and pronounce words as we write them."
This approach, the phonetic approach, which says we have to write words as we pronounce them, both is and isn't at the root of spelling as we practice it today.
It is, because the Spanish language, in contrast to English, French or others, always strongly resisted writing words too differently to how we pronounce them.
It was the etymological approach, the one that says we have to write words according to how they were written in their original language, in Latin, in Greek.
It is true on the lexical level, the level of words.
A second objection will come from those who say: "If we simplify spelling, we'll stop distinguishing between words that differ in just one letter."
Our language has homonyms, words with more than one meaning, yet we don't confuse the "banco" where we sit with the "banco" where we deposit money, or the "traje" that we wear with the things we "trajimos."
Some wouldn't even utter the words.
CA: I want to hear more on this, because the very words "global governance" are almost the epitome of evil in the mindset of a lot of people on the alt-right right now.
Well, first we looked at words.
If you remove the beginning and the end, you're left with a beautifully worded descriptor that tries to, in just a few words, capture an achievement or a lifetime.
And therein lie the words of wisdom of a young girl whose brief life forever impacted mine.
Well, maybe I'm just cynical, and all these words are lies, but experience keeps telling me that the cautious one is wise.
My friends on Twitter realized that even when my words were aggressive and offensive, I sincerely believed I was doing the right thing.
In other words, when kids get outside and practice bravery, they learn valuable life lessons.
They also used words like "depressing," "humiliating," "degrading."
Today I want to talk about the meaning of words, how we define them and how they, almost as revenge, define us.
Now, I'm not sure if I would use any of these words as I go about my day, but I'm really glad they exist.
And the whole mission of the project is to find holes in the language of emotion and try to fill them so that we have a way of talking about all those human peccadilloes and quirks of the human condition that we all feel but may not think to talk about because we don't have the words to do it.
That's the power of words, to make us feel less alone.
I started to think about what makes words real, because a lot of people ask me, the most common thing I got from people is, "Well, are these words made up?
And I didn't really know what to tell them because once sonder started to take off, who am I to say what words are real and what aren't.
And when people ask me, "Are these words real?"
No one really seems to know, but the fact that it doesn't matter says something about how we add meaning to words.
The meaning is not in the words themselves.
And I think, when we're all searching for meaning in our lives, and searching for the meaning of life, I think words have something to do with that.
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