Common Usage: “Light” On the surface, “light” is the electromagnetic radiation that allows us to see. It’s the sunshine streaming through the window, the glow from a lamp, the beam of a flashlight cutting through darkness. It’s the opposite of heavy. Basic physics, basic perception, basic description. But “light” radiates through everyday language with remarkable…
Metaphysics
Echo
Common Usage “Echo” At its most basic, echo refers to the repetition of a sound after it bounces off a surface. You yell “HELLO” into a canyon and the canyon yells “HELLO” back at you, because it has no imagination. This is Echo 101. But language being the slippery eel that it is, “echo” has…