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Language affects perception, perception affects reality.

• macspoofing 12y ago
  Are you sure it's not perception -> language, or perception <-> language.
  • TeMPOraL 12y ago
    It can (and I thinkt it is) both; you get a feedback loop, and such tend to steer the whole system in a particular direction.
  • josephlord 12y ago
    My statement doesn't preclude the reverse relationship. Each relationship is almost certainly bi-directional. Altering the language is a powerful technique to shift views and change the debate. Totalitarian regimes have used it extensively (and Orwell parodied/warned about in 1984) but it is used in democracies too, see the battle over the language for abortion (life/choice), the US redefinition of liberal and I'm sure many other things too.