How would you define language?
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August 28th, 2016
As a non linguist.
Say, a kid asks you, an average Joe: “Mister Average Joe, what is language?”
What would you say? How would you explain it in your own words?
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Language is a way for two or more people to communicate in a fairly unambiguous and consistent manner.
Verbal communication. Talk (n.).
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To a little kid? I’d give a practical definition just to convey the concept: Speaking, listening, reading, and writing are all part of how we talk to one another using words, and we call that “language.”
Language is words linked together to express our thoughts. A word can represent a thing or something that happens to things.
Specific, exact communication.
a miserable pile of exceptions and special cases
Language is a tool that functions to permit though sharing. That’s all language is.
The world is all about objects and their movements, matter and energy, which translates to nouns and verbs. That is the essence of language.
@ragingloli….you ain’t very cheerful today, huh?
@LostInParadise….and adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, articles (for the languages that have them), numbers, prepositions, conjunctions, and so on.
@Sneki95 , All convenient add-ons. The necessities of a sentence are subject ( a single noun in its minimal form) and predicate (a single verb in its minimal form). From there you can expand and compound. The next logical step would be to include an object noun in the predicate.
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