‘Depends on what is is’ on language predicates — complements needed way more - this is why I and other autistic ppl like me ask so many qs for clarification when it’s possible to do so
double negation in spoken language, or conflicting yes/no with different emphasis having different meanings with regional dialect.
eg ‘no yeah’ = yes, ‘yeah no’ = no, ‘yeah no for sure’ = definitely
‘the Cherokee language has a verb tense that specifically notes the exclusion of a person in the conversation, ‘we’re going (but not you)’ --- ’ this is called “clusivity” and its found in a bunch of languages, including Chechen, Vietnamese, Samoan and Quechua” — find more sources on this — links to in The Art of Gathering the discussion of explicitly defining who isn’t invited as well as who is, in order to have defined purpose in gathering
all those unknown etymological roots eg milk or be milked, etymologists still don’t agree on which came first, the verb or the noun
wherewithal
club and club - to club together, a club is a stick with clump of stuff on end. Togetherness, ‘collect middle’ direct translation of ‘focus/concentration’ in Japanese
indentured and dentures - indent/notch/dent - tooth - zigzag - cut contract paper
language evidentiality, language where you can’t say a fact without saying where you for the information i.e. implied, hearsay etc/I heard that/It is obvious that/It seems that
language affecting outlook, we make language and language makes us
words and concepts often used casually as synonymous, but where the distinction can be important in certain context or all the time
Words not having meaning intrinsically but usage, which differs with context