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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

on the origin of language

"for if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking."

our perception of the world comes to us by knowledge, thru communication and experiences in our daily life. Our mindset is determine by factors that appear in our everyday interaction with information... Would u know what is sex if u never came across the word? how about atom? UFO?

This words open up a new dimension for us, who would know what an atom is like if the ancient greeks didn't start thinking of everything as elements, earth fire water wind and wood. hmmm wonder if i mxixed it up with the chinese elements. but anyway, we humans are what we are thanks to all this ideas.

Isn't our life as simple as go school interact/study come home? work and get paid... live and pass off.. why do some words like "cool" are so seasonal, changing with time and culture. Why the need for all this extra dimensions. Is it because "they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking." this sentence that advocate the need for this kind of words because of the difference in the way 7 billion human beings think.

And by far, aren't most people drones then, if they hadn't invented their own words and are living in the boundaries of the language.(meaning we are all replicas of a common pool of knowledge thru speech and communication.) Maybe everyone aint so different afterall, held together by marriage, democracy, god and country so just to name a few. =)

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