Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
War is what happens when language fails.
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.
I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it.
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.