The mystery of language

I love words, and I think about them a lot. How did they ever get started? And all the different languages and the differences and similarities among them. And rhyming words. Why is rhyming so much fun?

rose and nose

folly and jolly, molly and dolly, holly and golly

How can the exact same word in different languages have such different meanings? And how come in one language we have so many words that express the same meaning yet not quite?

Isn’t our ability to speak something like magic? And writing and typing? And the languages of math and physics and chemistry. And baby language. And sign languages. And poetry! And song!

All over the world, man is a creature who speaks. We sure want to communicate. And why else do we have voices? And yet language is a great mystery.

I believe it was Jean Paul Sartre who said something like this:

“If man would use an honest speech, all the troubles of the world would go away.”

Posted by Gloria on June 11th, 2010 under these topics
poetry, Miracles, Personal Development, World Peace, Godwriting Journal

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Reply from Jack van Raders on June 11, 2010

Language is magic and to some people it is a mistery Some can use words beutifully like our gloria even If I have never heard of Raggety Ann. So let us use the most beautiful word of All “LOve” and use it Honestly Like I love you All Jack

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