Nominative determinism in hospital medicine (2015)
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Nominative determinism in hospital medicine (2015)
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#3Only slightly related, it recently occurred to me while journaling that the dictates of English grammar do a fair bit of work in forming opinions. You might think you believe one thing, but when you set about describing it, the linguistic choices have a subtle influence over the content of your statements. Over the entirety of an exposition, that influence can amount to a significant shift in meaning. I guess that's the point of journaling in a way; to find out what you think. But the effect must show up everywhere without people realizing it, even in writing that's not experimental.
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#4> Among the first entries was a reference to an article on incontinence in the British Journal of Urology authored by Splatt and Weedon.
I love it when we all acknowledge that everyone has an internal 4-year-old who finds this kind of thing very, very funny.
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#5Well, now we know! Four-armed is forewarned.
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#7Only slightly related, it recently occurred to me while journaling that the dictates of English grammar do a fair bit of work in forming opinions. You might think you believe one thing, but when you set about describing it, the linguistic choices have a subtle influence over the content of your statements. Over the entirety of an exposition, that influence can amount to a significant shift in meaning. I guess that's…
In case you're interested: This phenomenon you thought of is the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (or perhaps a variant of it)
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#8Only slightly related, it recently occurred to me while journaling that the dictates of English grammar do a fair bit of work in forming opinions. You might think you believe one thing, but when you set about describing it, the linguistic choices have a subtle influence over the content of your statements. Over the entirety of an exposition, that influence can amount to a significant shift in meaning. I guess that's…
Also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[1]
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#10I once had my car towed by a person with the last name "Pullum". If the Universe really is some kind of Simulation, I suspect the QA's are getting lazy with the NPC names.
Because that's EXACTLY how I name fake persons in unit tests. A police officer named Buddy Kopp, a traffic engineer named John Lane, a bbq pitmaster named Tray Burnham, etc.