To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanin…

Robin Lakoff
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To write or speak is to communicate. To communicate is to share meanings, make them ‘common’ to all participants in the discourse. (The etymological root of communication means ‘common.’) ✨ Robin Tolmach Lakoff (2001). The Language War, p.59, Univ of California Press
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