Julian Burnside takes a lighthearted look at the use and abuse of language – by those whose jobs rely on it the most.
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"The map is not the territory", Alfred Kozybski "Science and Sanity" 1933, perhaps would be the best précis of Mr. Burnside's oration.
A humble suggestion that perhaps Mr. Burnside would find great pleasure in a study of the science of Korzybski's General Semantics
Francis Reiss
11 June at 12:23PM