Thursday, August 28, 2008
Class aftermath
I will say that the discussion in class between the differences of speech, communication, and language brought streaming thoughts through my mind. I ended up getting on the phone with my best friend and high school sweetheart, who is at UK in Special Education and still my sweetheart 4 years later...in case you cared lol. Anyways, and we began discussing the ideas in class. I later began to see that the topic of communication within families and whether it could be a true language was indeed a dead myth. Communication it is, and on a larger scale could never meet the criteria of a language. In my opinion I should say this is what I have discovered. Anyone care to popcorn off this topic?
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I agree it was interesting to find that sign was not speech and i went home as well to think about it. This morning upon waking i decided speech is from the mouth that is correct and sign is not speech but what we decided in class that it is language and communication is correct so i can see how two of the three can exist with out the third! ( i need some time to process thigns like that and usually by the next morning i am agreeing what what has been said.
I agree that the "language" shared between family members can not be a true language. Rather, it is communication on a certain level that, perhaps, others are not "in tune" with. For example, my husband and I have a panic word for uncomfortable situations, or, situations win which we have pissed each other off in public. Instead of getting raving mad at one another and embarrassing ourselves, we use the word "Kokomo" in a sentence. We have not made up a word to put into the dictionary for the Lones language, we have just found a creative way to use the English language that others are not aware of.....I hope all of that made sense. lol
I guess a good question to ask is "Is this really another language, or is this just a "code" between people that could be broken if enough effort is put into it.
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