“Words do not possess intrinsic meaning. Absent a context, they have no meaning. Absent a speaker and a recipient, they have no meaning.

»We use words to suggest and shape, communicate and circumscribe meaning» to actually existing other participants in actual conversations.

When an actual conversation is not occurring—words »evacuate meaning. It’s a pretense of non-existing realtion that is as invisible as it is pernicious.

Words are for us to shape participatory contexts and express with. They do not stand abstractly above the minds of those that craft them ‘dictating’ their meanings to those who encounter them.”

— infraheard