Please note: This was written quickly and without consideration.
I have noticed many instances of a common language being the roadblock to communication, especially on the internet. When people post it is fast and dirty. No one gives any credence or care to what they read, write, or believe.
Why can't language be treated more fairly? It is, after all, how we communicate with each other, how we stay connected as an organism. But we dont care about it. We abuse and misuse it, treating it as if our ancestors didnt spend the last 10 mellennia honing it into a sharp and precise tool.
Now it is looked at as an albatross around the neck of the working man, the average American, the people we all know and feel self-conscious about trying to explain the difference between there/their. Or no/know/now. Or even your/you're.
These are simple things we should have learned in kindergarten. We should be struggling with problems which affect our well being, not problems which prevent our being from becoming well. If we cannot even communicate between each other efficiently, how can we possibly expect to understand and explain our positions?
Separated by a common language.
Ok, I know that misspelled words are not the source of all our problems, but it stands to reason that once we all start saying things we don't mean only because we cannot find the word we want to express our actual feelings, we atrat to misunderstand each other and wars have broken out for less. The whole point of having history is to allow it to teach us what not to do. That is essentially the only benefit of the past, it is its own trial and error for our benefit.
Alls I wanted to say is that we are all the same. We all want the same thing even if we are arguing over socialism(which i wasnt aware was on our ballots now), or global warming(which apparently doesnt exist because it is cold during the winter), or the war(because i hadnt heard of the country Al Qaeda. hint, it isnt a place...) We all want to be safe. We want to be healthy. We want our kids to go to school to get a good education so that they can be better than we were. We all want to be free to live our lives without hurting anyone. We all want an opportunity to achieve the American dream even if it is simply to be on American Idol. We all want all of the same things and yet we are arguing over what the RIGHT way to do that is? Shortsightedness must be an American trait.
If we have trouble merely understanding each other because we don't want to learn to understand each other, Al Qaeda is literally the least of our worries.
I have noticed many instances of a common language being the roadblock to communication, especially on the internet. When people post it is fast and dirty. No one gives any credence or care to what they read, write, or believe.
Why can't language be treated more fairly? It is, after all, how we communicate with each other, how we stay connected as an organism. But we dont care about it. We abuse and misuse it, treating it as if our ancestors didnt spend the last 10 mellennia honing it into a sharp and precise tool.
Now it is looked at as an albatross around the neck of the working man, the average American, the people we all know and feel self-conscious about trying to explain the difference between there/their. Or no/know/now. Or even your/you're.
These are simple things we should have learned in kindergarten. We should be struggling with problems which affect our well being, not problems which prevent our being from becoming well. If we cannot even communicate between each other efficiently, how can we possibly expect to understand and explain our positions?
Separated by a common language.
Ok, I know that misspelled words are not the source of all our problems, but it stands to reason that once we all start saying things we don't mean only because we cannot find the word we want to express our actual feelings, we atrat to misunderstand each other and wars have broken out for less. The whole point of having history is to allow it to teach us what not to do. That is essentially the only benefit of the past, it is its own trial and error for our benefit.
Alls I wanted to say is that we are all the same. We all want the same thing even if we are arguing over socialism(which i wasnt aware was on our ballots now), or global warming(which apparently doesnt exist because it is cold during the winter), or the war(because i hadnt heard of the country Al Qaeda. hint, it isnt a place...) We all want to be safe. We want to be healthy. We want our kids to go to school to get a good education so that they can be better than we were. We all want to be free to live our lives without hurting anyone. We all want an opportunity to achieve the American dream even if it is simply to be on American Idol. We all want all of the same things and yet we are arguing over what the RIGHT way to do that is? Shortsightedness must be an American trait.
If we have trouble merely understanding each other because we don't want to learn to understand each other, Al Qaeda is literally the least of our worries.
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