bad language (e.g.: propaganda) is parasitic, it consumes energy just for itself -- it greatly limits your perception and understanding of the world. good language is kommensal or even symbiotic, it may consume energy but does so very efficiently, whilst aiding your perception and understanding of the world (and yourself). dead languages are special in that learning them requires you to either have innate talent or an already great proficiency in multiple successor languages and knowledge about relations and histories of the people who lived them. i digress. either you control your language, or it controls you.  if you will, "religious" people are like "ghetto youth" genuinely failed by the education systems and their parents: their vocubularly is very narrow, very limited and limiting. if you wanted to teach them, to pick them up where they've been abandoned and walk them towards a meaningful life (= teach them skills), you'd waste your time -- and their time -- if you instantly blasted them with sophisticated verbiage, telling them that everything they are doing is wrong, but, just like the system you're trying to pull them out off, never why. for anyone else, well -- you know it yourself: while you understand the english language and can apply the most literal by-the-book reading if you so fancy, you may also harbor a certain bias and think in terms of connotations (i.e.: choice of words) first and universal function (i.e.: ideas) second -- if at all. remember the "political correctness" non-sense that popped up in 2011/12 and has had its peak in 2016 -- "trigger words". language may be considered one of the most potent drugs in existence and the gateway drug to any other. some people get hung up on particular language, soft-locked if you will. (cont.)
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