You see a kind of stick, with collapsible metal spokes on top that form an armature for a waterproof material which, when opened, will protect you from the rain. When I say the word "umbrella", you see the object in your mind. Consider a word that refers to a thing - "umbrella", for example. That is why I now work with the simplest means possible - so simple that even a child can grasp what I am saying.
But words, as you yourself understand, are capable of change.
Hence, every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent. They have not adapted themselves to the new reality. And yet our words have remained the same. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos. When things were whole, we felt confident that our words could express them. For our words no longer correspond to the world. “A language that will at last say what we have to say.
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