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Language is very static-very black and white-especially when you write it down? |
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Some people think so, but I don't agree. I think it depends on your choice of words. Language can be very open to interpretation... very uncertain. I think you have to word things very carefully to make them static, if that is what you want. I think words can be flowing and changeable as well, if that is what you are going for. It is true that when you write something down many times you are held to it... you can't take it back. But that doesn't mean that what you said is going to mean the same thing to every person. We are very inexact sometimes with our language, and different people will see different things in what we say... take offense when we don't mean to offend, or relate their personal experiences to something we wrote based on our own experience... which can change the ideas around completely.
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