The loss of language can have great
consequences but also free you from the barriers of its self. When Dr. Jill
Taylor told her story of her stroke she identified how everything around us
becomes free to our interpretation instead of the set ideas that we have made
of them. She describes how she couldn’t determine the difference between things,
including her own body. She tells us about here euphoric sensation when she
lost language and how she could be or do anything when she was in it. To me it
is a scary thought, losing language she brings up at the end what would you
choose, and to me I would have to keep my language out of the fear that I would
go insane without it. While in “Meditation in Linguistics”, Roberts Hass talks about
how when you add to an idea or add descriptiveness you, “that each particular
erases the luminous clarity of a general idea”. Which I can understand, we all
come across situations in which something is way over complicated, but I believe
being as descriptive as possible can help create a more understandable picture
of whatever you are describing. By understanding these ideas we can know how to
better use language, by adding this sentence do I lower the quality of the
overall idea? Or Maybe thinking with a less ridged thought process to see what
we usually do not.
I agree with what you stated because loss of launguage is a very horrible thing to happen to one considering many use the descriptive words to further understand ones comments. Losing language is something that as you stated is very scary to think about with the reason that language helps us get out point across. I must commend your further explanation on the reason why being as descriptive as possible is the best. You explain that it is crucial for one to include as much detail or be as descriptive as possible to further enhance the language in a sense. But overall I strongly agree with your opinion
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you about keeping language, but on a different note. I would keep it due to the fact that change is something that scares us all. We could do without language, but would we really enjoy life? That bliss that is mentioned in both articles from this post, and also the ones from previous ones, is all from living without that voice we know. Dr. Taylor mentions how she lost a lot of things including language, she found bliss, and I would have found fear. So this brings on a different question, would not changing be out of fear or comfort?
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