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language
"Language consists of language games that
reflect
forms of life." -
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"While we are generally only conscious of messages
that are delivered linearly via some specific linguistic pattern, our nervous
system also absorbs messages of associational or juxtapositional natures." -
Edward Wilson & Wes Unruh
"In reality, man is a being who lives in society
therefore a language is required which makes it possible to be always passing
from what is known to what is yet to be known. There must be a language
whose signs - which cannot be infinite in number - are extensible to
an infinity of things. This
tendency of the sign to transfer itself from one object to another is
characteristic of human language." - Henri Bergson
"Although we have cautioned against believing all
adaptations to be perfect, or all traits to be optimal, some human mental
abilities are the results of adaptation to primitive circumstances. The
enormous periods of time during which our ancestors were foragers and
hunter-gatherers are likely to have been formative for our species.
To
regard each human mind as a blank slate that
is informed by learning only after its birth has been found woefully
inadequate to explain the
development of human language.
Genetic pre-programming by
natural selection endows us with human
linguistic abilities. Those in
possession of such abilities, even in a more primitive form, had a clear
survival advantage over those that did
not: linguistic ability is adaptive." - John
D. Barrow
Language is always in a state of
flux.
Common usage of words shows adaptation. Over time definitions
evolve.
Corruption of original conceptual language images inevitably
occurs because of the adaption, modification and evolution of
terminology.
Many times a language gains richness and depth as it
evolves.
Other times a language is entirely changed, the word symbols
morph, as was the case with doublespeak introduced by 1984 .
"Language has
creative
force.Words are not merely symbols that point to things; they call forth
the reality and power of that being
mentioned."
Joseph Epes Brown
"The slovenliness of our
language makes it easier for us to have
foolish thoughts.
Words like
objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote,
constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress
up a simple statement and give an air of
scientific impartiality to biased
judgements.
Adjectives like
epoch-making, epic, historic, unforgettable, triumphant, age-old, inevitable,
inexorable, veritable, are used to dignify
the sordid process of international
politics.
Writing that aims at glorifying war usually takes on an archaic
color, its characteristic words being: realm,
throne,
chariot, mailed fist, trident,
sword,
shield,
buckler, banner, jackboot, clarion.
Foreign words and expressions such as cul de sac,
ancien regime, deus ex machina,
mutatis mutandis, status
quo, gleichschaltung,
weltanschauung, are used to
give an air of culture and
elegance.
Bad writers, and especially
scientific,
political, and
sociological writers, are nearly
always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon
ones, and unnecessary words like expedite,
ameliorate,
predict,
extraneous, deracinated,
clandestine,
subaqueous, and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their
Anglo-Saxon numbers.
Meaningless words abound.
It is normal to
come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. The
word fascism has now no meaning
except in so far as it signifies "something not desirable." The words
democracy,
socialism,
freedom,
patriotic, reality, justice
have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with
one another.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country
democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of
regime claim that it is a democracy.
Words of this kind are often used in
a consciously dishonest way.
That
is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his
hearer to think he means something quite different.
Statements like
Marshal Pétain was a true
patriot; The Soviet press is the freest on Earth;
The Catholic Church is opposed to
persecution, are almost always made with intent to deceive.
Other words used in variable meanings, in most
cases more or less dishonestly, are: class, totalitarian, science, progressive,
reactionary, bourgeois,
equality.
Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to
demand a lifeless, imitative style.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one
turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a
cuttlefish spurting out ink.
In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are
political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly,
hatred, and schizophrenia. One
ought to recognize that the present political chaos
is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring
about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Political
language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from
Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and
murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to
pure wind.
One cannot change
this all in a moment, but one can at least change one's own habits, and from
time to time one can even, if one jeers loudly enough, send some worn-out and
useless phrase - some jackboot, Achilles' heel, hotbed, melting pot, acid test,
veritable inferno, or other lump of verbal refuse - into the dustbin, where it
belongs." - George Orwell
"Our daily language, and,
in most cases, our so-called scientific language together with its logic,
originated mostly in a pre-scientific epoch and are largely elementalistic and
absolutistic; which must hamper successful reasoning
and solutions." - Alfred
Korzybski
In the beginning there were no words
only representational sounds, the cries of the
human animal.
Original Language
is locked deep inside each of us, ready to emerge whenever we shed the
inhibitions of our social culture.
The vocalizations of passionate sexual
abandon are nothing other than the Original Language
remembered.
These utterances are vectors of a communication far more
honest and intimate than any
semantic exchange.
Intensely emotional experiences
elicit utterances of the Original Language - spontaneous vocalizations of
ecstasy, lamentation, glee,
fear, rage, and joy and the cooing noises we
used at infants to placate the giants.
Surviving exclamations create primal reverberations in the
body and psyche - "Tada!" "Yahoo!"
"Wow!" "Amen!" "Ahh" "Oooh" Yippee!" - words in which the sound is the
meaning.
Sanskrit words and phrases often have an emotional resonance.
Words like "Om," "Ah," "Ram" and others are considered not to denote or
represent the divine, but to actually be aspects of the divine.
In
Native American languages a mysterious identity between sound and meaning
exists.
Names and nouns are an intrinsic and inseparable aspect of the
being named: To name a Being, or any aspect or function of Creation, actualizes
that Reality.
Chinese culture has strong taboos against speaking aloud
dark possibilities, lest it bring them into Reality.
In America, we still knock on wood.
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