Digital technology is fuelling a linguistic revolution in which
even simple expressions like LOL mask sophisticated layers of meaning, argues Tom Chatfield
Not exact matches
However,
even independently of their bearing on the Church's interpretation of Jesus» life, death, and resurrection, these texts have been held holy for the
simple reason that they give authoritative
expression to the central themes of promise and hope that constitute the core of biblical faith.
Look out for
simple signs such as change in facial
expression and ask them to go to the washroom, if they have already passed stool or peed then they might want to be cleaned and forcing them to sit can become
even more irritating.
He famously argued that «all physical theories, their mathematical
expressions notwithstanding, ought to lend themselves to so
simple a description that
even a child could understand them.»
Now, two independent groups report having made the process
even simpler, by soaking fibroblasts in combinations of small molecules, thereby obviating the need to tinker with gene
expression to turn the cells into neurons.
Despite an initially confusing collection of works, what's very
simple here is that direct reaction follows direct
expression — and
even if that
expression is (in Farkas» words) «a little bit fucked up», we can all relate to the dilemmas it conveys.
Many of us are raised to be kind to other people, but
even a
simple «I'm sorry» that is intended to be an
expression merely of sympathy may later be used against you to show that you believed yourself at fault in an accident.