Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt.

And I'm Antonia Dodge. The English language is a very flexible language.

I think the reason why English has taken off worldwide is because it's so

flexible that it seems like cultures and people groups all over the world are able to take an English language and over time it's evolved

it's been palatable it's been able to morph and it's been able to be used in a lot of different ways

and you've seen it evolve over time. However, I think what happens with the

English language when it has been so flexible is we've lost a lot of distinctions in the language we use.

We've lost a lot of the nuance of language.

You look at other languages, like the Greek language, for example,

or at least classical Greek.

And there's a lot of distinction around words and the meaning of words, and English seems to distill things down to basic language ideas.

Now I'm not a linguist, so I don't know all the exact nuances of all this, but I do know that English seems to like for example

there's like several words in classical Greek for love different flavors and types of love.

And in English, there's one word, love.

I love this hamburger or I love my wife, right?

So we have this one word that's supposed to encapsulate

a lot of different meanings. And out of this, as we go through life,

this can cause a lot of misunderstanding in the world because we have words we use for things and we lump things together categorically in language

and we might have a different meaning than the person hearing what we say

is hearing right we have something we're saying like, you know, I love a hamburger versus I love my wife.

Well, that love is very different in how we say it. So today we want to talk a little bit about language and a little bit about

creating distinctions in language and how we think that creating better

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