Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
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.
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.