Thread: Mini Rant: "I Feel" vs. "I Think"

Originally Posted by aeon

I think regardless of the method, what matters is the message. Everything else is just semantics.

I agree that the message is important, but I think that the semantics can diminish perceptions about certain things.

If you haven't read it before, George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language", in addition to addressing how meaningless phrases come into common usage, gets a lot into how language can affect thought.