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kentuck

(111,078 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 12:24 PM Aug 2019

Words have feelings - words have emotions - words have colors

Some words are green as poison. Some words are as soft and red as a rose. Words have meaning.

When the President of the United States says words like "invasion", "rapists", "infestation", "animals", "criminals", etc, his words have meaning. They are amplified because he has a megaphone called Twitter. His words are poisonous and hateful.

His lies are not harmless. They are words of intentioal deception. They infect the body of politics in this country. They divide snd harm our country. Politics is just a cover for demagogues that use words to inflame and divide.

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Words have feelings - words have emotions - words have colors (Original Post) kentuck Aug 2019 OP
Words clearly have none of those attributes Voltaire2 Aug 2019 #1
So true Beringia Aug 2019 #2

Voltaire2

(13,008 posts)
1. Words clearly have none of those attributes
Wed Aug 7, 2019, 12:28 PM
Aug 2019

They are marks on some material. Humans infer the set of attributes you listed from those markings. The author of the markings may or may not have intended the inference the reader makes from the words read.

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