Here's a great video on language as a window into the mind. It reminded me of Milton Erickson's artful vagueness, and how an advantage of this could be plausible deniability.

Thoughts?

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"In an exclusive preview of his new book, The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language, and the way it expresses the workings of our minds. By analyzing common sentences and words, he shows us how, in what we say and how we say it, we're communicating much more than we realize."

TED | Talks | Steven Pinker: The stuff of thought (video)