Language… HA!
5.16.08 by Tima while back i read some of this book called “The Four Agreements” by a guy named Miguel A’ngel Ruiz, explaining how he expected you to straighten out your life. It wasn’t very good, but one of the agreements, “Be impeccable with your word” taught me something pretty useful about language. Basically, when we use language, we’re taking advantage of thousands upon thousands of little implicit agreements about the meaning of words and phrases. When I use the word “agreement,” I have an implicit agreement with the rest of humanity about what exactly that means, and because you understand the agreement, you understand the idea I’m trying to convey.
But really what this post is about is questioning what words actually mean. Example- A while back a friend of mine named Michael told me that he hates it when people use the word “natural.” Basically it distinguishes between human works and natural processes, and because humans are a part of nature, anything they do is technically natural. It really bothers me when people use arguments like this. by destroying the distinction between human and nature, you’ve destroyed the meaning of the word “natural.” the agreement you have with the rest of humanity over what it means has been broken. So even if its important to understand that humans are an integral part of nature, its not worth completely dropping the word natural. If you want to distinguish between humans and other natural things, use the words “natural” and “unnatural,” and everyone will understand what you mean.
When you talk about the makeup of matter at an atomic level, its important to realize that all solid objects are really mostly empty space, with interacting atoms in between that hold together in more or less the same shape overall. Look at your computer screen- most of that is empty space! but there are enough atoms there that they can reflect all the light that would otherwise come through. The traditional concept of a “solid” just snapped in half (i could hear it). So what happens to the word solid? Can we ever call something solid again? YES. we can. absolutely. everything that used to be solid is still solid; in the way humans can see the world, nothing has changed. When I say my computer screen is solid, our agreements tell you exactly what i mean. Even if it’s mostly empty space, its still what we call “solid”- even if that means something a little different than we used to think.
So. Stop trying to deconstruct words at other people. You can do it yourself just to learn something, by coming to a better understanding of what you really mean, but when you tell me about it, it just gets old. seriously, i already understand pretty well what I mean when I’m talking, considering the technical aspects of how words are defined doesn’t change their meaning. It doesn’t. So don’t do it.
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