I hate the word ‘utilize’. There is an art form to selecting words. One mustn’t be drab, nor overly verbose. Large words should be used for clarity and precision in terms of expressing one’s intent. They should NOT be used to merely for the sake of making the speaker sound
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Canadian Progressive World: Conservative MP seeks to open emotive abortion debate
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has made it clear his government will not reopen the abortion debate. But Stephen Woodworth, the Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre wants to reverse course. And force Parliament to enact a …Read More
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: The Stages of Human Communication Technology
Language (pre-history) Written Language (circa 3200 BC) The Printing Press (circa 1440 ) (Johannes Gutenberg) Telephone (1861/1875) Radio Broadcasting (circa 1910) Television Broadcasting (1928/1936) The Internet (1969) (ARPANET) Smart Phones (1992) (RIM BlackBerry 1999)
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Media Messaging – Using the ‘Right’ Terms
What language do you think progressives should use to try to communicate with the average Canadian viewer?
Continue readingYappa Ding Ding: Esperanto is Old School
Wittgenstein described language as a city. Three’s the Old Town with its twisted streets and the new suburbs that are neatly organized. The entire city is constantly changing and growing.That’s the way it’s supposed to be, but is language evolving enou…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: More Than a War of Words: Gas Industry Plays Fracking Victim
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Evoking an emotional response in one’s audience is a rhetorical means of persuasion well documented since Aristotle. But like Aristotle writes in h…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Religion and Language Part III: On Agnosticism
In previous posts on this series on Religion and Language (on deism, in part I; one morality, in part II), I have looked at the way careful attention to the language used to describe religion makes many different religious arguments vacuous. As we sha…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Language and Religion Part II: On Religious Morality
In the second installment of Language and Religion, we look at the question of absolute morality and some of the confusions that result from issues of semantics and language. Previously we looked at deism, in part I, and will look at agnosticism in pa…
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Religion and Language Part I: On Deism
This post is the first part of a three part series on the intersection of language and religion. This first part introduces the concepts and focuses on deism; part 2, on religious morality, is coming shortly; part 3, on agnosticism, is coming shor…
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AS I SEE IT:PSEUDO RADICAL BABBLE:I’ve been at this game (leftism) for over 40 years now, and I certainly have accumulated a scrapbook full of “stupid things lefties believe and do”. Back in those deep dark days of my youth a lot of the smellier bullsh…
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Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.Wood AllenA string of words can be powerful. The amount of words can be many or little but it doesn’t matter if there are many or a few…the message they contai…
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