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Originally Posted by The Dark Wolf
Really? Interesting... I had only glimpses that others felt this way.
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I believe that language in a technical sense is only meaningless sounds. But human cultures have assigned those sounds meanings. Therefore all meaning is stored within humans themselves and we use this complicated system to convey things. Written language is nothing more than meaningless marks on paper. But we assign these symbols with meanings and thus can communicate. One good example of this is that modern English spelling (both American and British) does not reflect the way modern English is spoken. It reflects the way English was spoken hundreds of years ago. For example, the word "knight" is spelled EXACTLY the way it was pronounced 700 years ago. Every single letter was pronounced "k" "ni" "g" "hh" "t" - sounded kind of like German. But now the word is pronounced with no "k", no "g", and no "h" - all that is left is the "n", the "i", and the "t" and the "i" now is the roll-syllable "ai" instead of the original "ih".
So, yeah, I agree with you, Bob. But I have my own extraneous thoughts surrounding that.