LANGUAGE
1. That’s a funny idea, that talking doesn’t matter. Matter is that hard stuff like the floor there. Well, things that you say do matter, at the most basic possible level. MNC20 2. That’s a nice thing that the General Semanticists got into. They called it the semantic reaction, and it’s about how, when you speak to someone, you can speak words to them that won’t change them much, or you can speak words to them that will change them a great deal. It has to do with the amount of energy and the amount of information that are in the words, as well as the condition of the listener. MNC20 …. more