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Originally posted by wilbjammin
On one hand, our whole existence is defined by words. On the other, words are symbolic, metaphorical, and at least one step removed from whatever is being discussed.
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Language is a construct; it's innate, dead. Written language is nothing more than a group of symbols that we as a people have agreed to represent perception through. I believe that the need to communicate between humans and the invention of such a system to do so is a much more exciting innovation in the experience of mankind.
And, one of my favorite lines, "Every word that we utter was given to us by another; it is the assemblage of those words that makes them our own." -August West.