Silence shapes the very vocabulary people use to describe experience.

Evidence

How different are these words, written in silence, than, say, those of urban-dwelling graffiti artists who travel noisy urban streets and write on walls and signs and subway cars? The thoughts in the jar reassure me that I am not alone in my love and wonder of quiet. — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1615

Categorization

• FICTION: The contrast between words written in silence versus words scrawled in noisy urban spaces could seed a meditation on how environment shapes language and self.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 1615
• XREF: connects to: Silence is a positive, self-contained reality rather than mere absence. — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 19; To Picard the theologian, silence is the context of consciousness while language is the expression of creation. — Picard, Max: World of Silence - Book Reviews; Universalizing discourse silences the specific wounds of the colonized. (+1 more)