Oh yes, words alter our perception..

as a trainer, i realize the words i use to present information effect the way people think about the information!

When my daughter was a pre-schooler, and her older brother was already learning how to print.. she marked up some paper and said " i can write too" a friend dismissed her paper, and kindly said, "Yours is just scribble scrabble"

Emily stood tall, took back her paper, and said "No, its not scribble scrabble, its toy script!"

Now, scribble is hasty, worthless, or careless, with out reguard to legibility or form. and scrabble is an alternate word for scribble..

but toy script, like toy money, is not the real thing, it something for a child.. and like any toy, it is an imitation of a real object, and has a similar form, and some functionality, but it not ever thought to be the real thing.

Doesn't toy script change how you think about what was on the page? Emily knew she wasn't really able to print and write like her brother.. but her stuff wasn't worthless!

(an second interest point is Emily knew the word script!)


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