We don't own [language]
19th April 2017 | for Creatives | art, language, writing, culture, Lidia Yuknavitch |
"We don't own [language]. We walk around pretending like we do. We give it order and we grab it and control it and pretend that that's meaning, but it's an arbitrary, free-floating sign system, which means any other group of people could grab it differently and order it differently and make a different meaning. It's like the ocean in that way. You can't grab the ocean."
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