Perspectives__Whose_Language

Perspectives: Whose Language After reading through “Perspectives: Whose Language” and reading the pieces by Orwell and Rushdie, an interesting thought comes to mind. As the importance of language is obvious for obvious reasons, I feel like it is even more important still than one might realize. The problem with communication in my opinion is this… thoughts and emotions are like fluid and words are like solid. I feel that one could think and/or feel in a certain direction forever, but there are only so many words. To further exacerbate the problem, most of us don’t even know most of these words. Now analyzing deeper, wrap your mind around this. We all have some thought or some idea that we immediately associate with any word that we know. We all have our own definition of what the word means. When one person offers up a few sentences to another, what are the chances that each will relate the same idea to each word' Probably, after the logical adding up of the words and their individual definitions in the sentences, it is probably less words, one, word, thought, same, orwell, language, idea, feel, each, whale, think, sentences, saying, rushdie, reading, problem, probably, obvious, miscommunication, mind, limitation, know, it’s, ideas, help, excerpt, even, because, after, wrap, worse, wonder, whose, ways