nodus tollens

n. the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore

"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. And this is where I think language came from."

"If a community of speakers is using a word and knows what it means, it's real. That word might be slangy, that word might be informal, that word might be a word that you think is illogical or unnecessary, but that word that we're using, that word is real."

~ Anne Curzan