I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
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.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.