how ironic that out of all the sources she would use she would use Alfred Korzybski, founder of general semantics, a philosopher of language. He said that using correct language is necessary to express meaning properly. Also that our perception and experience of the world is often rooted in our language, but that was an idea already around (i think). Somewhat similar to Sapir-Wharf.
lol
You know she just uses google search to find something to support her.
Wikipedia:
In simplified form, the "essence" of Korzybski's work was the claim that human beings are limited in what they know by (1) the structure of their nervous systems, and (2) the
structure of their languages. Human beings cannot experience the world directly, but only through their "abstractions" (nonverbal impressions or "gleanings" derived from the nervous system, and verbal indicators expressed and derived from language). Sometimes our perceptions and our languages actually mislead us as to the "facts" with which we must deal. Our understanding of what is going on sometimes lacks
similarity of structure with what is actually going on. He stressed training in awareness of abstracting, using techniques that he had derived from his study of mathematics and science. He called this awareness, this goal of his system, "consciousness of abstracting." His system included modifying the way we approach the world, e.g., with an attitude of "I don't know; let's see," to better discover or reflect its realities as shown by modern science. One of these techniques involved becoming inwardly and outwardly quiet, an experience that he called, "silence on the objective levels."
he also created English Prime or whatever in which you talk without using the word "Is" ot "To be". The reason you do this is to avoid associating with something on an eternal basis (that one's hard to explain). Like if you said "John is flying" it means he's in a state of flight and according to the statement he should never stop flying because he IS flight, plus john himself is not actually flying. It just happens to be a place he's at in one certain time, thus he says we should say things like, "John is currently in an airplane flying to australia."
He also invented "The map is not the territory" which is an extension of that and means that.. for example, a book about god isn't actually god. Um.. a... map is not the same as the territory it represents. crap like that. Basically, our ideas or abstractions of things aren't the same as the concrete physical objects/processes they are supposed to represent.
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