Epitome Anatomy: VERBAL FINGERPRINT
EPISODE SUMMARY:
"This linguistic pattern in turn determines how others build their understanding of who we are. How cool is this?"
Wish just had a realisation about the concept of 'verbal tics'—the unique linguistic patterns that define how individuals express themselves. She discusses how our choice of words and language reflects our personalities and how these verbal fingerprints can create a recognisable identity. Through personal anecdotes, she illustrates the connection between language and self-expression, emphasising the importance of understanding our unique diction in relation to others.
Reference from this episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic_linguistics
https://www.thetext.co.uk/what_is.pdf and https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/09/fingerprint-words-verbal-tics-that-define-us-and-how-they-spread-to-others.html (further reading)
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MAIN TOPICS:
00:00 Exploring the Concept of Verbal Fingerprints
10:36 The Impact of Language on Identity
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Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (00:00.076)
I prerecorded something while I was in London a few days ago. After a hefty, beautiful lunch, I just realized something out of the interactions that I had in that restaurant. For the context, I explicitly created the title Human Thesaurus Podcast to convey the layers of our personalities which are strongly connected to our humanity and help us describe others.
It's always been the main focus of my podcast. And then I spun it off to this epitome anatomy to envelop the word with deeper context. Now I am schooled again by my own concept because apparently there is another layer to the epitome of words. An individual's unique diction or word choice and
syntax or descent structure establish a recognizable pattern or say a unique verbal fingerprint if you may. This linguistic pattern in turn determines how others build their understanding of who we are. How cool is this?
Welcome to Human Disorders Presents Epitome Anatomy. My name is Wish and I talk about some things, somehow, to dissect words and phrases relevant from my life to yours. Ready for the epitome of verbal fingerprint? Let's go! Our term is verbal fingerprint.
or verbal tics, or the more scientific term, linguistic fingerprint. It is a concept put forward by some scholars that each human being uses language differently, and that this difference between people involves a collection of markers which terms a speaker or a writer as unique, similar to a fingerprint. Under this view,
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (02:27.284)
It is assumed that every individual uses languages differently and this difference can be observed as a fingerprint. According to Dr. John Olsson, who was the world's first full-time forensic linguist and practiced as a forensic linguist for 25 years, instructing prosecutors, solicitors, and police forces across the United Kingdom.
RIP Dr. Olsson, I just discovered you and I am grateful.
This is an impromptu podcast because I'm just literally recording on my phone. So I hope this will sound good with of course digitizing and modulating and all of that during the post-production process. But I would like to talk about language. Language of every single individual. I think this is very important for me to cover because
We're always talking about human thesaurus, the words that describes us as individuals. But another portion of this, which I just realized, is that apart from these words that are completely connected to who we are as people, as individuals, as unique, wonderful, or horrible individuals, is the part wherein we use language.
that is very much connected to us, to our personalities. For example, I'm going to use a word that is quite crass, but I need to use it because when people hear this word, they connect it to me. They connect it to me not to describe me, but everybody who are close to who I am as a person.
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (04:31.414)
or everybody who just know who you are or who I am as a person, they know that I'm the only one in their circle who would use this quite efficiently and quite confidently. So this word is the C-U-N-T-S. So every time other people hear the word C-U-N-T-S, it's wish. Wish because wish uses that a lot.
So what I'm saying that what I find so fascinating about this is that there are words that is quite familiar to an individual, not as a descriptive word of that individual, but these are the words that is very much attached, relevant, and connected to the people around you because they use it.
Not everybody would use the same word to express themselves. Not every single word are quite familiar, especially when English is your second language, even our first or any other language. It's just a great idea. It's such a great concept to understand that the words that we use as an individual are so connected to us, to our uniqueness.
to the way we describe or to the way we express ourselves. We're not all the same. And that is another layer to who you are as a person. It's not just the words describing or connected to who you are as a person, but the words and the languages that also describe the manner
on how you express the words that you're conveying to everyone around you. It's phenomenal. It's mind blowing for me to just realize this because I'm just focused on how words connect us to ourselves. But that's in words. But out words, we have these voice, these way of writing, this way of
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (06:56.718)
the context of storytelling or just expressing what we feel or what we say in public. They're also connected to us. Some of us would use, you know, more passive voice and active voice and passive aggressive voice. And there are particular words that other people may not use, but you use quite regularly.
And that means that becomes connected to you. So yeah, it's just so funny for me because I just, the other day, my best friend Anne, she just used the C-U-N-T word for the first time ever within our, what, 40 years of friendship. And then she said, ha ha, I sounded like you because she described a group of annoying people.
as C-U-N-T-S. And she said she sounded like me and I was so proud of her because she finally said it. Because I think for her during that time, the context was extremely relevant to what she's trying to describe. And that word is connected to me because that's how I describe people who are on the extreme side of
no awareness of their environment, no compassion, no kindness or humanity or people who are soulless that they are just a nuisance to the society. So I call them CUNTS. Whenever I use that, I don't use that very loosely. I use that
specifically for a specific type of people. So whenever you hear me use that word, it will just make you feel that it's coming from me describing particular type of people. People recognize that that word is connected to my language, my individual language. It also gives this unwritten understanding that I use it powerfully.
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (09:22.702)
succinctly, to specifically describe some people in this world. And I'm brave enough to say that. But this is... it just blows my mind really. Because each of us, like think about this. Each of your closest friends, each of the friends that you really, really know inside out, your brother, sister, your mom, dad, they have these particular set of words.
that's quite related to them, that it will remind you that they use this chain of words specifically for them, specifically for the language that they use, specifically for the personalities they have. And that's so wonderful, isn't it? The language is now just became more complex to me, knowing that the connection to
and individual's personality and point of view and really as an indelible mark on their personality is quite present. It's a fact. Wow. So I'm happy to share this with you and I hope this audio sounds okay when JC edits it. Okay.
Now that you're aware of these verbal fingerprints, have you noticed some distinct words you use plus the closest people around you? How does this add flavor to how you see people? Again, we go back to words and please share your oddest word that you always use that you think that nobody else does around you. It will be interesting.
to know about that. Until next time, ciao!
Wish Ronquillo Peacocke (11:26.03)
Human Thesaurus Podcast is produced by me and my brother, Jeremiah Ronquillo. All rights reserved via Wishblizz Media.
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