Tuesday, February 9, 2010
What are WORDS?
I disagree! It is a load of crap that words cannot express these concepts of physics. Words are made by humans, Right? Yes they are, so that means that you can make up new words in order to fill in the void between other words. This is like how in English we have one word for snow. If you are a person of Inuit decent you have a huge vocabulary for snow upwards of 150 words. The Inuit saw a different need and they catered their language around it. How is this situation any different? Words have been made before and I do not think that we should limit our self’s to the words we have in present if they do not fit our needs. I think that using riddles in order to explain concepts of science is an incredibly inaccurate way of doing things. When different people read the same thing you have a chance that they all have a different perception of what is being said. A great many factors go into how a person interprets something, such as their upbringing, current state of mind, environmental factors, and much more. Using riddles in order to get a point across does not seem like a worthwhile way to record ideas, just make up new words!
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"It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it." --Mae West
ReplyDeleteWords. Words are never what they seem, because words were never any thing at all. Hai capito? Words change.
"Silly are the goddy tawdry maudlin for they shall christgeewhiz bow down before him: bedead old men, priest and prester, babeling a pitterpatternoster: no word is still the word, but, a loafward has become lord." -- Ronald Suffield, "The Tenth Beatitude" (a complete dissertation on nearly every word in the above quote can be read at http://www.langmaker.com/ml0104.htm )
BTW, the original meaning of "silly" was "blessed". What are words, anyway?
"You're never too old to become younger." -- Mae West