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Tag Archives: parental alienation
Language as a vector of pain
I recently had someone tell me he disowns me. This struck me as an incongruous turn of phrase since he never owned me to begin with (nor does anyone else for that matter), thereby making disownership a non sequitur, a … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellany
Tagged child custody, dead leaves, language, logical fallacies, neuro-linguistic programming, pain, parental alienation, photography, semantics
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