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The stronger verbal taboos have … a genuine social value. When we are extremely angry and we feel the need of expressing our anger in violence, uttering these forbidden words provides us with a relatively harmless verbal substitute for going berserk and smashing furniture; that is, the words act as a kind of safety valve in our moments of crisis.
— S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action 66 (4th ed. 1978)
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Some of the worst things ever written have been due to an avoidance of the ordinary word, and the mistaken choice of what the writer thought was a more dignified word or phrase.
— Henry Bett, Some Secrets of Style 102-03 (1932).
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The ability to express ourselves is not a frill for the edges of life, but an indispensable tool of our self-understanding, our understanding of others, and our rational contact with the world around us.
— Royal Bank of Canada, The Communication of Ideas 37 (rev. ed. 1972).
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New Carver Apartments, Los Angeles
Michael Maltzan Architecture
This is pretty cool looking. I feel like it would be impossible not to feel inspired every time you walked to your apartment …
via n-Architektur.
