Lone Prairie

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How your language constrains your understanding of the world.
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How your language constrains your understanding of the world.

Why your vocabulary is about much more than you realized.

Julie R. Neidlinger
Apr 01, 2024
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Do you feel lonely? Abandoned? Companionless? Deserted? Desolate? Forsaken? Solitary? Solo?

Seems like a lot of words to say the same thing. But they don’t say the same thing.

Each of the meanings capture slightly different qualities. The language you have at your disposal determines if you’re able to expr…

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