The power of language
Words don't just say; they also do. This is the basis of a field called pragmatics. In other words, there's meaning beyond the dictionary definition of the words we use. In speech, things like gesture, intonation and speed come into play.
In writing, these paralinguistic features can't be encoded very easily. Sure, we can get somewhere with the help of p…
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