‘Language hairs'
He who does not mince his words says what he thinks, speaks supposedly without beating around the bush or restraints, says what politeness, perhaps, would make another person keep quiet about, and often says the first thing that comes into his head and his words can hurt. Mince his words describe the experience of someone who, having accessed the necessary instrumentalization of language to make himself understood, nevertheless feels the ambiguity of language, as when a fever causes one's tongue to swell in the mouth and seems too big to speak. And, in another order, even worse: it points to a consciousness that knows that between words and things there is an unbridgeable gap, that speaking does not guarantee access to reality, that it is not we who speak, but rather it is language that speaks to us.