While on the topic of book recommendations: Embassytown is a wonderful exploration of Sapir-Whorf with a lot of fun words I had to look up

Two examples!

Idiolect: The speech of an individual, considered as a linguistic pattern unique among speakers of his or her language or dialect.

Tendentious: Marked by or favoring a particular point of view; partisan. / (of speech or writing) expressing or supporting a particular opinion that many other people disagree with.

Arsecroft,
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I really enjoyed this book, might give it another read!

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