deli trky on a roll - 8g? 12g?
1:30ish: head out for grave blankets + wreaths pickup
office-supply: no 1.5" grid posterboard; tracing every 3rd line on 1/2" grid will end up the same
costco gas, meat, tofu, pistachios
candy-for-grown-ups: cider spike fluid; Peychaud's
grocery: doggo kibble, cheeses, dist wtr, vinegar et al
Hunan Wok: today we learned their sesame chicken is just not-spicy Gen Tso with a sprinkle of sesame seed
Nutcrackers (2024) ; continue Nurse Jackie
Didn't notice Peychaud's bitters anise component, the cherry note was a lovely touch in a Manhattan tho
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One theme within George Orwell's "Nineteen Eight-Four" (and Sandra Newman's spinoff "Julia") is the idea of "Newspeak", the official language of Oceania. Marketed to Oceania's citizens as more efficient and precise than English, it's an open secret that its real purpose is to render dissent impossible. This intention of Newspeak is rooted in the early 20th-century observation of "linguistic relativity": for example, Russian speakers discuss dark-blue and light-blue as distinct primary colors, where in English we interpret them as shades of the primary color blue. Studies find that this difference of terminology maps to experimentally-demonstrable differences in how easily subjects can distinguish blue shades close to linguistic "blind spots".
Although early 20th century linguists Sapir and Whorf never actually coauthored any work, in the 1940s a student of Sapir glommed their names together into the misnomer phrase "Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis". We should really call it the Hoijer Hypothesis. Science has validated weaker versions of the idea, i.e. we know language influences cognition. But the science has discredited the proposition that language strongly/strictly limits how we can interpret (and therefore respond to, or act on) experience. In short, it's just one influence, not an absolute. Newspeak is ultimately just a fantasy, not a potential.
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