Say... - The Secret Life Of Pronouns: What Our Words

People who are being deceptive often distance themselves from their actions, Aris explained. They stop inhabiting their own sentences. He’s not just hiding the money, Julian. He’s hiding himself from the narrative.

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say The office of Dr. Aris Thorne was a sanctuary of silence, save for the rhythmic clicking of a mechanical keyboard. Aris was a computational linguist, a man who didn't listen to what people said, but how they said it. To him, nouns and verbs were the flashy actors on a stage, but the pronouns—the "I," "me," "we," and "they"—were the invisible stagehands holding the entire production together. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say...

Aris didn't look at the complaints or the project updates. He ran the text through his software, stripping away the jargon. He was looking for the fingerprints of the psyche: function words. People who are being deceptive often distance themselves