Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Anachronistical Misuse

"To grasp the essence of the Greek language (and any language for that
matter) is to understand the historical framework in which it is
found. Languages are culturally conditioned. Therefore, it is
important to be aware that there is the possibility of worldview
confusion, in which we take a contemporary understanding of a word and
anachronistically misuse the same word found in scripture."
-R Villodas
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