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Storytelling and Language

When
EDT
Where
The Royal Oak - Bank at Gloucester188 Bank St, Ottawa, ON
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***Please arrive at 6:45pm to order your drinks/food so that we can start the event at 7pm with minimum interruption. Thank you.*** Every communication attempt we make is a form of storytelling. And the language we use is the main tool for us to tell our stories. Language is the very architect of our thought that shapes our reality. So what is storytelling to you? Are you a good storyteller? Do you admire a good storyteller? Should you be more weary of a good storyteller or a bad storyteller? Do we tell stories to mainly make ourselves look good? Does storytelling bring us closer to the truth or distract us from it? And what is language to you? Do you know the main language you use everyday well? Why can't we agree on the meaning of language, words? Is language one of the main sources of disputes? If our identity is wrapped around the stories we tell of ourselves, and those stories are rewritten to make sense of time, is there a "real" self underneath those words, the language? Is

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