Jonty Claypole

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11,327 appearances 34 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 3d ago

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Secret Life of Books · Greek Lessons by Han Kang · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

And their awareness of their bodies and and the way that ordinary phenomena affect them vi vissus, affect their bodies, I think is a sort of trademark. voice-verified

element of Hong Kong style. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I mean for me the point about the middle voice is as you're saying, I think Hung Kang is making the the point in this book that language is not just a tool that human beings use for communicate. voice-verified

And when and I think often we think about language in the way that we might think about any other sort of tool, like a spade or a fork. voice-verified

It's something we're in control of. voice-verified

And I I think the point is that language happens to us exactly as you're voice-verified

Saying when we use language, we are using it, but it it is also using it at us and it is shaping us. voice-verified

And and that's the middle voice bit, the idea of the middle voice that the the verb is something which is happening to the to the speaker. voice-verified

And the example the Greek teacher gives in the book when he's talking to his students, he says in English, there's a phrase, you know, he killed himself. voice-verified

He talks about that is essentially what the middle voice is doing. voice-verified

It's something that happens to you, but you don't need to say himself or myself. voice-verified

Though so the section I want to read that relates to that is the moment where she she sheds language. voice-verified

She uh she realizes that language with its physicality, its skewer-like precision, its big bang like. voice-verified

power is something she and nobody is in control of. voice-verified

It it it's shaping us. voice-verified

And she talks about the feeling of letting it go, of becoming mute. voice-verified

And and it's not just language as it is, vernacular language, it's also the weight of history that a language has. voice-verified

So every time we speak, Sophie, as we're speaking now, we're not just using words in a timeless way as they come into our head. voice-verified

We're using words and phrases that have been shaped over a thousand years or thousands of years and carry a whole history of meanings. voice-verified

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