Defining language:
You cant really define it at all, i see it as a way of communicating with another person and having a sort of mutual understanding between the sender and the receiver so in my my mind even things like hand gestures or winks or smiles are considered as language because they communicate a message, a sigh or a frown can indicate your mood and other people will be able to pick up on what your giving out because frowns and sighs are know in "language" as things that define sadness, just like the actual word "sadness" would. So i do not think it makes sense to say that language is some diversified complex idea that was developed or created by intelligent and superior beings. I see it as being the most basic thing in the world. A frown has the same effect as a descriptive paragraph talking about how sad someone is, they both communicate emotions and are a form of expression.
In my opinion stating that language has some sort of set of rules and that it is conspired or created is ignorant of us as humans.....
If there is a different between language and communication then what is it? It would make no sense to me if someone told me that language was somehow grammatical and was written and that sign language wasn't a real language. People have said that language is a form of communication but what other forms of communication are there? to me it seems like whenever we want to express our selves we use some form of language. Weather it be body language or text or sign language they all fall under the same category which is language.
So if someone wanted to talk to me about how language was a form of communication then i challenge them to tell me exactly what form of communication does not classify as language? People are narcissistic by nature and like to believe in the idea that they have created or developed something that once never was. We like to think that we somehow created language when in fact there is nothing more simple. You cannot say that the languages that the most early and basic humans spoke does not classify as "language" you cannot say that because they did not have text or writing that the way in which they communicated was not language.
In conclusion i believe that people have the need to specify language and make it seem more specific and critical because we want to believe that we have somehow created some sort of evolution and also because we want ownership over the entire idea of language. I personally think that language is ETERNAL. It is something that has always been here and something that will always be here because people and anything living for that matter need to communicate in order to survive. We have evolved and created the languages that we speak today from ancient languages, and those ancient languages evolved from even older languages, and i'm sure those languages originated from even older forms of communication. Basically what i'm saying is that language and communication are the same, and that communication is a necessity to be able to maintain life on this planet.
You cant really define it at all, i see it as a way of communicating with another person and having a sort of mutual understanding between the sender and the receiver so in my my mind even things like hand gestures or winks or smiles are considered as language because they communicate a message, a sigh or a frown can indicate your mood and other people will be able to pick up on what your giving out because frowns and sighs are know in "language" as things that define sadness, just like the actual word "sadness" would. So i do not think it makes sense to say that language is some diversified complex idea that was developed or created by intelligent and superior beings. I see it as being the most basic thing in the world. A frown has the same effect as a descriptive paragraph talking about how sad someone is, they both communicate emotions and are a form of expression.
In my opinion stating that language has some sort of set of rules and that it is conspired or created is ignorant of us as humans.....
If there is a different between language and communication then what is it? It would make no sense to me if someone told me that language was somehow grammatical and was written and that sign language wasn't a real language. People have said that language is a form of communication but what other forms of communication are there? to me it seems like whenever we want to express our selves we use some form of language. Weather it be body language or text or sign language they all fall under the same category which is language.
So if someone wanted to talk to me about how language was a form of communication then i challenge them to tell me exactly what form of communication does not classify as language? People are narcissistic by nature and like to believe in the idea that they have created or developed something that once never was. We like to think that we somehow created language when in fact there is nothing more simple. You cannot say that the languages that the most early and basic humans spoke does not classify as "language" you cannot say that because they did not have text or writing that the way in which they communicated was not language.
In conclusion i believe that people have the need to specify language and make it seem more specific and critical because we want to believe that we have somehow created some sort of evolution and also because we want ownership over the entire idea of language. I personally think that language is ETERNAL. It is something that has always been here and something that will always be here because people and anything living for that matter need to communicate in order to survive. We have evolved and created the languages that we speak today from ancient languages, and those ancient languages evolved from even older languages, and i'm sure those languages originated from even older forms of communication. Basically what i'm saying is that language and communication are the same, and that communication is a necessity to be able to maintain life on this planet.
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