Miranda Fricker, in her book Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing, theorises ‘hermeneutical injustice’:The idea relates to language in a variety of ways, starting with a point that sounds fairly simple, at least ostensibly: without words for aspects of living or realities of experience or nuances of emotion we are, individually and collectively, more impoverished than we would otherwise have been. This is a fact whose ramifications can be framed in relatively innocuous terms, as for instance with the Danish word hygge, which in the UK became a springboard for commercial marketing campaigns, or with occasional fun-fact-style announcements about the number of words for snow in Eskimo and Scots. These instances flow into cases where discovering a new word comes with a sense of something being added, a light flickering on somewhere, as happened to me recently reading an article where the author, Catherine Chou, was learning to read in Mandarin, a language she was raised with and can speak but not read.