The Weird World of Words by Mitchell Symons

Author:Mitchell Symons
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Zest
Published: 2015-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

ON THE LIMITS OF WORDS

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

—Theodore Dreiser

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”

—Ludwig Wittgenstein

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”

—Edward Hopper

WHERE’S IT FROM?

SCAPEGOAT

This goes back to Biblical times when people would bring two goats to a sacrificial altar. One goat would be slain but the other — said to carry the sins of the congregation — was allowed to escape. Thus, the word ‘scapegoat’.

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