TrueBlueBroadDec 17, 2022
George Lakoff
Repetition changes brains.
Repetition changes brains.
Repetition changes brains.
Dec 16, 2022 at 1:07amWeb
Show threadForrestDec 16, 2022
@georgelakoff ALT TXT:
“Repetition of language has the power to
change brains. When a word or phrase is
repeated over and over for a long period of
time, the neural circuits that compute its
meaning are activated repeatedly in the
brain. As the neurons in those circuits fire,
the synapses connecting the neurons in the
circuits get stronger and the circuits may
eventually become permanent, which
happens when you learn the meaning of
any word in your fixed vocabulary.
George Lakoff”1/2
Show threadForrestDec 16, 2022
@georgelakoff ALT TEXT con’t:
From: “George Lakoff
Whose Freedom? The Battle over America's Most Important Idea”
2/2
Show threadvyDec 16, 2022
@georgelakoff
Branding works - and many "left" critics of Democrats work to support Republican branding.
https://krebscycle99.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/criticism-from-the-left/
Criticism from the left

krebscycle
Show thread@wertherDec 16, 2022

@georgelakoff

Depending on the input obviously a change in the productive, positive, as negative, destructive sense, I suppose?

Show threadkonstantinovDec 17, 2022
@georgelakoff
Glad to find you over here, Professor.
Show threadstephen perrenodDec 17, 2022
@georgelakoff 7 times in 7 ways is the slogan; and when the listener has fewer activated neurons, well..
Show threadTokyo Sand Dec 18, 2022
@georgelakoff I’m so glad to see you here on Mastodon!
Show threadTaras TrickDec 20, 2022
@georgelakoff I'm a living example that this is not theory. 43 years ago I was marked as musically deficient. Couldnt hit notes with my voice (comprehend what I was supposed to do anyway) But I persevered since love for music can do that. I practiced whistling songs, singing, later guitar playing. Didn't care what anybody said & felt about it. Nay nay. It took me much repeating and now I can feel how to voice a note, after 25 years practice to play the guitar proper and whistling a song in key.
Show threadValueTruthDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff That's why the phrase #ButHerEmails invokes such a Pavlovian response in MAGAs. Now Republicans are trying to brainwash the same dupes into foaming at the mouth when they hear #HuntersLaptop - with ol' Elon's help.
Show threadKarrieSullyDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff repetition and meditation changes how we think and our vision for the future. Journaling changes behavior.
Show threadrmabennettDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff and government messages
Show threadJoy Lives HereDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff This is why I think equity and justice style guides for writers are so damn cool. At the bleeding edge of anti-oppression writing we get to continually seek out constructs within language that reinforce systems of power, deconstruct them, and replace them with terminology that more accurately describes the reality of oppression thereby laying the implicit power imbalance bare and exposing it for what it is.
Show threadPeter RelphDec 22, 2022

@georgelakoff

That is why the Australian press repeats set pieces like whenever they say "Bali Bombing" it is without fail followed by "which killed 202 people including 88 Australians".
You then have to wonder what they are trying to achieve by this brainwashing repetition.

Show threadDani — MLT(ASCP)Dec 22, 2022

@georgelakoff
Hmm. Does this mean I can trick my brain into thinking more positively?   Unconvinced.

Mostly sarcasm, obvs, because we've seen what repetition can and has done.

Show threadThestaroftheworldsDec 25, 2022
@warkittens @georgelakoff make me a cake, make me a cake , make me a cake
Show threadKirstyDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff repeat a lie enough and people will believe it.
Show threadMelindaDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff
That's the way brexit propaganda was installed in the minds of Daily Express readers in the UK (the Express is only one of many in the UK media that carried out this function, sadly this included the BBC too).
Show threadLadyTDec 22, 2022
@georgelakoff which is why children have a better capacity to learn multiple languages than adults
Show threadwellsprungalice (she/her)Jan 1, 2023
@LadyT @georgelakoff #GabrielWyner disputes this. With children, it’s much more about available time. His theory about how neural connections are made is also interesting.