We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.
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