' I'm a Nolan. I could dazzle you in dialect, because the words do not make the same sense to different men.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker claims words can be manipulated to confuse or dazzle because they mean different things to different people.
- In plain terms
- I can talk circles around you since the same words mean different things to different people.
- What can you take from it?
- Understand that language is subjective and can be used to obscure meaning.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Do words mean the same to everyone?
- How do you clarify meaning?
Another view
It underestimates the shared grounding of language.
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