What Our Words Say...: The Secret Life Of Pronouns:

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say The office of Dr. Aris Thorne was a sanctuary of silence, save for the rhythmic clicking of a mechanical keyboard. Aris was a computational linguist, a man who didn't listen to what people said, but how they said it. To him, nouns and verbs were the flashy actors on a stage, but the pronouns—the "I," "me," "we," and "they"—were the invisible stagehands holding the entire production together.

As Julian left, Aris turned back to his monitor. He looked at a draft of an email he was writing to his own estranged daughter. He saw the "I"s piling up like a wall, a testament to his own ego and his need to be right. With a sigh, he began to delete them, searching for a "you" that might finally bridge the gap. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say...

People who are being deceptive often distance themselves from their actions, Aris explained. They stop inhabiting their own sentences. He’s not just hiding the money, Julian. He’s hiding himself from the narrative. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words