> Language is not something we can disembody; it is an ethical as well as a mechanical entity, inextricably bound up in ourselves, our posiitions, and our relations with those around us.
https://archive.org/details/sim_fortune_1950-11_42_5
#FortuneMagazine's #1950 #LanguageOfBusiness article was quoted by #JacquesBarzun in "The Retort Circumstantial" in #TheAmericanScholar #PhiBetaKappa. It makes me think of machine-generated text, the recent #ChatGPT discussions