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...

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Language isn't about communication

Language isn't about communication. Language is used to get things done. Communication is the means.
~Anonymous
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Things I had no words for

"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way- things I had no words for."
Georgia Okeeffe
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Monday, November 1, 2010

Sum of Languages

I am the sum of my languages

-E Hoffman

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