The Bias of Language

The reading from The Bias of Language was a fairly interesting piece of writing, which examined how words and descriptors can be used to change people’s minds about certain subjects. It went further into depth when it talked about how we view the news as a source of true information, but how even the news uses different styles of words to portray the writers views. The beginning part about how everyone has a different way of telling the same story and their different views on it reminded me of the beginning of the year when we first began discussing truth and how everyone has their own separate truth. Just like there is no absolute truth, there is no absolute version of a story, instead everyone will retell it a different way. Furthermore, I enjoyed the writing about how there are words which are purely descriptive, words, which evaluate a situation, and words which infer something that is unknown. I had never really thought of this before and found it to be something to think about. Overall, though the reading was long and semi-tedious at parts, it was a fairly interesting piece to read.