Thursday, September 4, 2014
Before words, their was just an empty space that belonged but had no usage. According to Walter J. Ong, "' a culture where no one has ever ' looked up' anything." pg 28 Anything could be a combination words and their meaning into day society. Gleick is saying that, no one ever takes the time to look up the history of words nor no their background. We all know that words are formed from the alphabet but its never described like this. According to Havelock, he describes it as a cultural warfare, a new consciousness and a new language at war with the old consciousness and old language. He then goes on to say that "' Their conflict produced essential and permanent contributions to the vocabulary of all abstract thought. Body and space, matter and motion, permanence and change, quality and quantity, combination and separation, are among the counters of common currency and now available." I agree with this 100% because time is cumulative and with time of a consistency of change. If we don't follow up on new language then how could technology and things of that nature progress?
Before words, their was just an empty space that belonged but had no usage. According to Walter J. Ong, "' a culture where no one has ever ' looked up' anything." pg 28 Anything could be a combination words and their meaning into day society. Gleick is saying that, no one ever takes the time to look up the history of words nor no their background. We all know that words are formed from the alphabet but its never described like this. According to Havelock, he describes it as a cultural warfare, a new consciousness and a new language at war with the old consciousness and old language. He then goes on to say that "' Their conflict produced essential and permanent contributions to the vocabulary of all abstract thought. Body and space, matter and motion, permanence and change, quality and quantity, combination and separation, are among the counters of common currency and now available." I agree with this 100% because time is cumulative and with time of a consistency of change. If we don't follow up on new language then how could technology and things of that nature progress?
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I think that people do reflect on language but mainly when they are forced to. When I am exposed to new cultures I often think about how they speak and interact with each other. When reading a text by Shakespeare the words are often compared to the modern language. I remeber when I read Song of Solomon and had to really determine why the author wrote the text and how the text reflected the characters background, location, and time era. History is important no matter what topic is being covered it allows us to see how things have evolved, so do we really need to go back and learn every aspect of the history of words.
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