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- How a private-sector CEO thinks.
- LGBT asylum seekers, quotas and open immigration.
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Language is a tool for us to express ourselves to others, and also to express our own thoughts to ourselves. It serves for communication, entertainment and philosophy (which includes science). Its important role in society suggests that by improving language, we could perhaps bring significant changes to the whole of society. The differences may be subtle, but if language is the frameworks of our minds, then an improvement in language will be an improvement in how we perceive ourselves, society and the natural world.
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Posted on: 24th of April 2009 in Ideas | | Comments (0)