Opinion | Words As Weapons: How Linguistic Habits Blind Us To Terror And Traumatic Realities

Very often, we become victims of habits that were calculatedly imposed upon us by our enemies

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Terrorist attacks on 9/11 and 26/11 seem to have happened during the same month of the year. They did not. Actually, 9/11 is written out of American habit, which mentions the month before the date. So, it was September 11 (in the year 2001). And 26/11 follows the Indian habit of writing the date before the month. It was the 26th of November (2008).

National habits take decades, or even centuries, to form. Perhaps that explains why they are so adamant. We are in the habit of measuring temperature inside the human body in degrees Fahrenheit. We know that 98.4 degrees Fahrenheit is normal human body temperature. Many of us also know that the maximum body temperature that man can survive is 109.4 degrees F. But we may not know that its equivalent in centigrade is 43.

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When it comes to temperature outside the human body, we know that 40 degrees Celsius is when it begins to feel hot. But we might not know that, in Fahrenheit, it is 104 degrees. We understand instantly........

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