Just a few random thoughts
I was going to blog about a news piece today, but I would prefer to say that it is possible to miscommunicate with someone you respect, like, and maybe even love.
Language can be difficult, even when it is our native one. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl about the Holocaust was one of the first books they asked to read in high school. What do words really mean?
I have made a lot of joke/poems about puns on this blog and in a book. Some people don’t like puns because they play with more than one meaning for words. It hearkens back to John Keats’ concept of “negative capability”: sometimes you have to relax and put strict logic aside. Words can mean different things at the same time.