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“Here’s the basic premise – Images and writing are very different. They utilize different parts of the brain. Images are feminine, writing is masculine. Images are perceived all at once, holistically – we step back and take in a visual scene, in aggregate. Writing, on the other hand, is sequential –…”
“I’m not rating this because it wasn’t what I expected, and so I don’t know how to rate it. This is a book for linguists and perhaps psychologists. This is not a book for writers, and this is not a book for laypeople. This is a very dense, abstract book for people who think very abstractly and…”
“In linguistics, a fake word invented to fill a specific, immediate language need. One envisions a child making up a word to refer to something her or she doesn’t know the actual name of. ‘for the none’ is Middle English for ‘for this one time.’ The term is also used in programming to refer to a…”
“ For example: ‘Bang!’ or ‘buzz’ or ‘hiss.’ Saying the word also makes the sound. ”