I heard a quote on NPR this weekend that stuck with me. "We treat things the way we name them." In one interview the discussion came up as to perception and "madmen or advertising" where lables and naming conventions tended to subconsciously steer folks in a particular direction - like suppositions in conversations.
A lot of communications is actually non-verbal body language stuff but without human interfacing, which is plenty of communications this day and age due to twitter, blogs and facebook, the words tend to speak a lot louder. If I place an ad saying something like "don't fear night attacks anymore, take my fool-proof "deadly martial art" self defense class .... " isn't the label "deadly martial art" actually giving impressions, expectations and personal assumptions a boot up toward signing up and spending your cash?
Labels, naming conventions and other words both literal and through suppositions tend to create assumptions that direct people to treat them in the manner presupposed, yes?
In karate, we do tend to treat things the way we name them, yes? Then it goes to show that semantics, the words, the characters and the methods used to convey knowledge and proficiency do matter.
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