Tuesday, November 6, 2007

How does language work?
How is language related to knowledge?

Most would agree that all languages have similar features. They have derived from different geological areas, but do the same thing. Human language is just a way of communication, like that of animals. Ours is only more complex. Although some insects out there, like bees, have some crazy type of dances to communicate to others the location of food or danger. But I think what actually makes human language more complex is he ability to share ideas.

The communication of ideas, etc, may make us the more of organisms on the planet, but as people, we can all fairly share ideas amongst each other, with intelligence having nothing to do with it. I would say intelligence only comes into play we finding facts and answers, scholastic, is being observed. But is intelligence the same as knowledge?

One does not need much knowledge to ask the time in another country. We, most of us at least, raise one of our wrists up and point to it with our other hand to ask. I would say it is almost instinct anymore, but some one was the first to start that action. Was that person just knowledgeable enough of their experiences in life to think that another would get it?

Knowledge works together with language. I guess I would say the more knowledge, the better one could communicate, in any language.