Monday, February 9, 2009

Baaahhhzzpp...that means i had a good day.....?

I was actually having a conversation with one of my friends the other day about language and its evolution. We began to hypothesize that language would eventually just be noise that we make (well actually that's what we kind of do now). What i mean is, for example, we thought that one day you would be able to express how you were feeling, what your day was like generally, and talk about the weather all in one sound like, "BAAhhhzzzp". At the time it was pretty hilarious to try and come up with sounds that would describe an emotion, situation, or event, but i began thinking again about this conversation after reading these articles. I don't think that language dies, but rather i would like to think that in some ways we as a human race, and I'm sure other species, become more efficient with communication over time, and thats why language changes, "dies", or evolves. We are making life a little easier when it comes to communication. For instance you can have an entire conversation with someone now without even uttering a sound via your cell phone. Making life easier one less sound at a time.

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