[HN Gopher] Nominative determinism in hospital medicine, by Limb... ___________________________________________________________________ Nominative determinism in hospital medicine, by Limb, Limb, Limb and Limb Author : smartestdumbguy Score : 12 points Date : 2022-01-13 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (publishing.rcseng.ac.uk) (TXT) w3m dump (publishing.rcseng.ac.uk) | davesque wrote: | Only slightly related, it recently occurred to me while | journaling that the dictates of English grammar do a fair bit of | work in forming opinions. You might think you believe one thing, | but when you set about describing it, the linguistic choices have | a subtle influence over the content of your statements. Over the | entirety of an exposition, that influence can amount to a | significant shift in meaning. I guess that's the point of | journaling in a way; to find out what you think. But the effect | must show up everywhere without people realizing it, even in | writing that's not experimental. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-13 23:00 UTC)