They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept them from picking up what I thought were obvious signals.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.