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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
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.
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.
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
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.