Do we need a new language to describe cybersecurity?

The English language has changed in recent years to be more inclusive of a variety of groups. Some say those changes reflect our increasingly diverse society; others say the words we use help to create that diversity.

Language matters, we now know. The words we use not only reflect our perceptions of the world, but may shape it, as well: How we say something can be as important as what we say.

Aboriginal Australians, for instance, use directional terms such as “north” and “southeast” instead of “left” and “right.” They are said to have a sense of direction as good as any compass. Equatorial people whose language offers no distinction between “blue” and “green” have been found to see no difference between the two colors. And so on. For the full article click here 

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