techbro wank premised on thinking that “not bad”, “you’re not wrong” and the like aren’t the widely used English phrases that they are. Fortunately English has the perfect phrase to describe this post; not even wrong.
I’ve been learning Chinese for the past three years here, and I can definitely see how it very much differs structurally in the way he describes. It’s not that English doesn’t have these turns of phrase or that you can’t say things in a direct way in Chinese. It’s about the way you phrase things as a default. Every language I’ve learned had structural differences and affects the way I think when I use it. That’s the most interesting part about learning languages I find.
“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.” ―Henry Ward Beecher
I think this sounds better when formulated as “words are the hooks we hang our ideas on”
indeed
some people really love the smell of their own farts so much they write articles on substack
