Between the class exercise and the “Waking Life” clip I learned that language itself is only symbols and sounds. These symbols and sound can be spoken or written differently depending on their origin. However what is more interesting about language is that words can mean the same thing in different languages, while the same word can be interpreted a million different ways in one particular language. One reason for these variations on the meaning of a singular word was discussed in the “Waking Life” clip. It was discussed how one word could have different meanings was due to the fact that words are intangible and people can define certain words (like love, frustration, hate, etc) due to experience that they may or mat not have had in their lives. A final interesting though on words is that in the clip it discussed how words were formed from necessity to unify people, and now words can be some of the most diversifying things between people.
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Some interesting points. It's interesting to think about how variation in the use of language is one of the ways we express differences.
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