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Weighted words: Daniel Menaker at TEDxSBU

3,389 views · Published 23 October 2013 · 18:11 · Indexed 1 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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My talk was called "Weighted Words" and it concerned the use and omnipresence  of metaphors in all language and writing, with the added assertion that language itself, while an amazing miracle, is metaphorical by its very nature--that our words are efforts to comprehend a Reality beyond our comprehension. 

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