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All words, in every language, are metaphors.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Marshall McLuhan
Media, Language, Metaphor
Marshall McLuhan, Bruce R. Powers (1989). “The global village: transformations in world life and media in the 21st century”, Oxford University Press, USA

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Marshall McLuhan
Definitions, Language, Form
Interview with John Lennon, (CBS Television), December 1969.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

Marshall McLuhan
Order, Use, Language
Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Barrington Nevitt, Harold Adams Innis (2005). “Marshall McLuhan: Roles, masks and performances”

Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Marshall McLuhan
Mean, Perception, Language
Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.183, University of Toronto Press

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