Language of Control
A topic I have written about before, I have been thinking a lot lately about language and how it can be used for so many different things. Of course the most visible and obvious use is for communication, but it can be so much more. Language is not just for the transmission of our basic thoughts and and intentions to another, we also use it to transmit knowledge and to discriminate. Although language could be used as a manner of creating relationships between people by sharing our thoughts, it all too often becomes the criteria by which people are excluded. I have long been fascinated by the ways in which different languages have the ability to express different thoughts due to their unique vocabularies, grammatical structures, and common usages. Unfortunately, introducing a new language into a culture can be the difference that causes on to be excluded, rather than as a benefit to the potential breadth of thought and reasoning that could occur.