Understanding Language and Its Place In Society
Human language is one that's very lossy and easily corrupted. First of all, intent of may not be delivered well enough. Secondly, the receiver may not even interpret the message in its original perspective. With that said, the backbone of all loose language is flawed and inherent in every TX and RX. But unlike the squareness of computer language and the language of currency, our loose human language has the power to sway opinions and lift the spirits of others.
What do you think about a social blockchain like STEEM? The blockchain protocol is distributed and speaks the same computer language, but of course, the stuff that I'm typing here now is entirely made up of a very faulty, but somewhat effective way of interpersonal communication - in English.
Below is a very interesting video that I was watching yesterday. It gets into the many evolutions and creations of spoken human languages. Is being able to speak the same language in high-fidelity all that important? Well, it's definitely important for any works of mass collaboration to take place - just like what scientists, architects, and engineers are able to do. Otherwise, I think it's not really that important especially when it comes to smaller-scaled, one-on-one communication.
Anyway, enjoy the video!
Volapuk... hilarious! I've heard of esparanto. Dominant languages can be refined in accuracy rather than invent a new one. Sure one language is more convenient, but bilingualism has recently been shown to indicate benefits in the brain as we age. So there is some benefit to communicating with two languages. Interesting video.
The interesting part is that languages do inspire different sets of emotions. As with the many Chinese dialects found like Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, etc - I can say that a dialect like Hokkien is generally very rude-sounding and really translates emotionally (can attest to that since my hometown is filled with Hokkien-speakers)
I think any language sounds rude especially after people get together have have a few drinks. Even just getting together to eat and socialise has this effect. Hokkien may not be unique in that way. Try going to local cafe or dimsum restaurants in Hong Kong during peak meal time, one would think Cantonese is rude-sounding too. :-)
It's a joke here that Hokkien monologues talking about mundane stuff still sounds rude as hell lol! Yeah I suppose it's that way. I used to wonder if there's 2 alternate univeses that are exactly the same, except that I was born learning different languages ONLY, what would have turned out differently? Personally, I wonder if I would've been a very different person if my main language is Chinese instead of English.
i heard of esperanto too. I heard it's bit like Spanish.
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