SLOTS FOR REALITY — The architecture of language
<p>Some words are more versatile than others, such as pronouns. As I say ‘you’ to so many people, each of them becomes plugged into that linguistic slot, the pronoun ‘you’. There are many other words like it; ‘they’, ‘she’, ‘he’, but also ‘this’, ‘that’, ‘there’ and ‘then’. These can refer to any number of things, places, people, times. It is a property they share as ‘shifters’. Their meaning shifts dependent on the context of their use. They can be compared to the x in algebra, the wild card of a game. ‘You’ stands for an unknown before it is actually uttered. On its own it doesn’t make you think about a particular person.</p>
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