"We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language ... we cannot talk at all except by subscribing to the organization and classification of data which the agreement decrees." Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)
"I don't know how you managed to write 215 words on a contradictory contingency plan for the event that you encounter someone who didn't like you, without actually keeling over from sheer ennui.
Or how I managed to read it." A friend (1987-)