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  1. "Woke" "wokeness" is used so broadly it's unmoored from any real meaning - essentially, it's used by some people against anything they don't personally like or agree with. #words #meanings #woke

  2. "Woke" "wokeness" is used so broadly it's unmoored from any real meaning - essentially, it's used by some people against anything they don't personally like or agree with. #words #meanings #woke

  3. "Woke" "wokeness" is used so broadly it's unmoored from any real meaning - essentially, it's used by some people against anything they don't personally like or agree with. #words #meanings #woke

  4. "Woke" "wokeness" is used so broadly it's unmoored from any real meaning - essentially, it's used by some people against anything they don't personally like or agree with. #words #meanings #woke

  5. "Woke" "wokeness" is used so broadly it's unmoored from any real meaning - essentially, it's used by some people against anything they don't personally like or agree with. #words #meanings #woke

  6. CW: GRAMMAR IS MULTI-MEANING !... NOT EASY!

    #Language = multi-meaning #words!

    ⚠️ Not always easy to see which #combination being used / #inferred!

    🌠 Actually most have more
    uses / #meanings / #contexts !

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    THERE
    ==================
    #Adverb: there
    1. In or at that #place
    2. In that matter
    3. To or toward that place; away from the #speaker

    Noun: there
    1. A #location other than here; that place

    #Interjection: there
    1. #Expression of #sympathy used to comfort someone

    ==================
    WERE - SIMILAR TO:
    "IS / IT WAS" + TENSE
    ==================
    Verb that is similar to:
    (am,are,is,was,were,been,being)

    1. Have the #quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
    2. Be #identical to; be someone or something
    3. Occupy a certain #position or area; be somewhere
    4. Have an #existence, be extant
    5. #Happen, occur, take place
    6. Be identical or #equivalent to
    7. #Form or compose
    8. Work in a #specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific #function
    9. #Represent, as of a #character on stage
    10. #Spend or use time
    11. #Have life, be #alive
    12. To #remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in #infinitive form
    13. Be #priced at

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    WHERE
    ==================
    Adverb: where
    1. In or at or to what place

    Conjunction: where
    1. On the other hand; while on the #contrary

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    TO
    ==================
    #Preposition: to
    1. In the #direction of
    2. #Sign of the #infinitive #case
    3. #Used after an #adjective to indicate its #application
    4. Indicate a #ratio or #odds
    5. #Indicating a #rate or #relation
    6. (time) before

    #GRAMMAR IS #MULTIMEANING !

  7. « When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for new meanings. You reject certain ways of saying it; you select others, always trying to form the poem again. In your forming, you arrive at new and more profound meanings than you had even dreamed of. »

    ― Rollo May

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/73509

    #quotes #RolloMay #poetry #limitations #meanings

  8. « When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for new meanings. You reject certain ways of saying it; you select others, always trying to form the poem again. In your forming, you arrive at new and more profound meanings than you had even dreamed of. »

    ― Rollo May

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/73509

    #quotes #RolloMay #poetry #limitations #meanings

  9. « When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for new meanings. You reject certain ways of saying it; you select others, always trying to form the poem again. In your forming, you arrive at new and more profound meanings than you had even dreamed of. »

    ― Rollo May

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/73509

    #quotes #RolloMay #poetry #limitations #meanings

  10. « When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for new meanings. You reject certain ways of saying it; you select others, always trying to form the poem again. In your forming, you arrive at new and more profound meanings than you had even dreamed of. »

    ― Rollo May

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/73509

    #quotes #RolloMay #poetry #limitations #meanings

  11. « When you write a poem, you discover that the very necessity of fitting your meaning into such and such a form requires you to search in your imagination for new meanings. You reject certain ways of saying it; you select others, always trying to form the poem again. In your forming, you arrive at new and more profound meanings than you had even dreamed of. »

    ― Rollo May

    🔗 · poligraf.tumblr.com/post/73509

    #quotes #RolloMay #poetry #limitations #meanings

  12. #Putin & #Trump are both, in fact, #fascists. And their use of the word, though meant to confuse, reminds us of one of fascism’s essential characteristics. A fascist is unconcerned w/the connection between #words & #meanings. He does not serve the #language; the language serves him. When a fascist calls a liberal a “fascist,” the term begins to work in a different way, as the servant of a particular person, rather than as a bearer of meaning.

    #AmericanFascist #TimothySnyder

  13. #Putin & #Trump are both, in fact, #fascists. And their use of the word, though meant to confuse, reminds us of one of fascism’s essential characteristics. A fascist is unconcerned w/the connection between #words & #meanings. He does not serve the #language; the language serves him. When a fascist calls a liberal a “fascist,” the term begins to work in a different way, as the servant of a particular person, rather than as a bearer of meaning.

    #AmericanFascist #TimothySnyder

  14. #Putin & #Trump are both, in fact, #fascists. And their use of the word, though meant to confuse, reminds us of one of fascism’s essential characteristics. A fascist is unconcerned w/the connection between #words & #meanings. He does not serve the #language; the language serves him. When a fascist calls a liberal a “fascist,” the term begins to work in a different way, as the servant of a particular person, rather than as a bearer of meaning.

    #AmericanFascist #TimothySnyder