Thursday, January 09, 2025

Language is not a game, it's a leap of faith!

This piece makes the argument that the interactions in speech, which of course came eons before written communication, involve an act of faith, so to speak, not only between people in a group or duo, but by the speaker themselves, basically an act of faith and faith in memory that "they know where they're headed" with their string of morphemes.

In turn, I can see this related to the sometimes stilted language of people with autism. It's another spin on theory of mind issues.

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