roachboy

pigglet: but we are language in the sense that we are able to separate ourselves from our environment, to become agents/actors, across the process of acquiring language (this separation happens pretty early on in human development, like somewhere in the 3-5 year-old range...): we are an "i" because we reshape/reorder information around it. we make the world as meaningful, as coherent for us. we impose an organization on the world and live through that organization. so it's not like we make rocks. but we make the category "rocks"---and so the phenomena we encounter that we group as "rocks" are as they are because we organize them in that way, across that category--and by ordering phenomena, by making them meaningful we create them.

there is an argument that i am still thinking about but i'll relay it here anyway: human beings are animals the natural habitat of which is language.
obviously more needs to be said about this, but for the moment, i'll leave it at that. there is a husky who grows impatient, waiting for a walk through forests of nouns, past theaters of verbs. somewhere in the middle of that, he will poop.

anyway, i should have been clearer. like anything else of any complexity, it is hard to say what should be said in a messageboard format. such is the nature of the beast.

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