Monday, December 8, 2008

Inadequecy of language

have you ever felt the inadequacy of words both written and spoken to convey a meaning a feeling. To begin with I admit I have a very limited vocabulary and rely heavily on spelling corrections. The point I am trying to make is words , language are quite inadequate in conveying a meaning , especially when they are different , radical idea. People usually come armed with their ideas, beliefs, thoughts from which they will not budge. Often it turns out to a you said , I said with a bit of ego thrown in. Which I have felt pretty sad about.

Coming back to the inadequacy of language, how many times have we lost the meaning of words , not making sense of the context , trying to make sense of whats spoken from our view point. So you ask the problem is not really with the communication medium but with the transmitter and the receivers. WE dont transmit or receive the language properly.

I wish we dont have to work hard , be lazy , look at people , initiate a transmission of data packets , receive acknowledgements and communicate correctly and effectively... Hmm, what a wasteful use of bandwidth and time you say.... see I told you language is quite inadequate !

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