Ironic that the quants, that the grand thinkers, the professions of greatful standing, don’t understand the tropes. They strut their lack of rhetorical skill. No wordsmith will ever win their respect.
Oddly it is because language is easy. Their world is hard. Abstraction over conception. Yet it is the language concept that fails them. Ironic that they don’t see the conflicts they create with words.
Category: babl
language has no meaning, words mean everything, the platform of thought is language, the mind is mapped by its words … yet change happens
The False Expressive
A formulation of speech meant to impress without binding the speaker/writer. KSA is regularly used in place of further thought, of fuller expression. It is an empty gesture.
An example:
When entertaining, Padma is devoted to improvisation in the kitchen and a kind of closely monitored chaos in the dining room. [Food & Wine June 2007]
The KIND OF in the quote is used to dilute, to extend the phrase without adding to the meaning. More flower, more salt, more whatever, without increasing the flavor. Words as place holders.
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