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Ordinary language is all right.
One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.
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Brandy Clark captures desperation: 'if one won't work, then another one will'.
'[T]o break the domination of the word over the human spirit'—not the most trustworthy-sounding words for declaring the aim of one's treatment of language.
'In the same way people have wanted to express, 'There are no things', by writing '~(∃x).x = x'. But even if this were a proposition, would it not be equally true if in fact 'there were things' but they were not identical with themselves?'
(A 'grammatical joke'. And a hilarious one!)