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Miércoles, Abril 30th, 2008
In a Dark Place
hello, all,i’m supposititious to be asleep right now, but i well-founded can’t seem to get my inclination to stop racing. i don’t know why. i’m in a fairly dark mood right now and for some rationale that makes me want to blog, so i thought i’d go ahead and write a little something here to hopefully get my mind to obtuse down a little. tonight’s subject is somewhat learned. it’s also rather linguistic.i’ve been reading everywhere diction. not any fact one, but languages in general. this started as research for another installment of the “world building” series, but i don’t definitely feel organized enough to put that together tonight. instead, i wanted to talk about on a trend i’ve noticed with english as i analyze the language. we are a dark, violent, undoing-obsessed society. how can i tell? aside from the obvious(i’m sure you can speculate my reference), i really looked at the number of words we have for death, sinking, and killing. there are three right there. let’s take a look at these words, shall we?first, there’s the verb “to die”. this has a relatively simple meaning: to cease to live. there is some defence as to the specifics, but we can all pretty well agree on that sense. there are the various tenses of that, of course, and the common noun: death. ok, so far we fool descriptors for a biological make, fetching much imperative, so no judgment there.then we have the words for killing. to kill, to extinguish, to assassinate, to execute, etc, etc. these are all various types of death. while moribund is implicitly unpleasant, being killed(a passive tense) is explicitly so. murder refers to a more planned, decisive act. you assassinate a guy, you murder your neighbor. assassination is just murder of a name. execution is murder of a criminal. so we have words for not only the mode of death, but the quarry.next, there’s the “legal jargon”. homicide, patricide, matricide, regicide, etc, etc. moreover more refinement of the brutality. these all tend to involve the object more that the means, but there are a multitude of them. oh, speaking of the means, there are those, too.we contain words like electrocution, strangulation, mutilation, etc, etc, etc. all of these are not necessarily lethal(oh, an adjective!) acts, but they are almost always intended to be. justly, so then there’s firm. that has its own kit of words: “involuntary manslaughter” anyone?ok, so it could be argued that these are just borrowed for the languages that english evolved from and equitable because we maintain them in are ordinary does not imply anything beside our present society. ah, if only that were the case. the fact is, supposing, that these words are not no more than our linguistic appendix, they are common, prosaic words. they say the average reading level of an american citizen is around 7th grade(though, theme to a 5th grad above-board is usually a safer bet). however, anyone who is remotely literate(say around 2nd or 3rd grade) would understand the seniority of these words.there are languages that have multiple words for fruits, trees, wind, anything you can think of. we have only a handful(one statement for each “species” of tree, usually). we also have words ask preference “run” that has too many disunite definitions to recuperate from into(dictionary.com returns 94 results). our languages is a supposedly advanced, civilized anecdote, so why do we need so many remarkable words owing this simple, biological process? that, my dear reader, is a philosophical question for you.to apply this to world building(my attempt to absolutely rearrange a point), note that the diction and vocabulary of a people tells an immense amount about the society of said people. are your people violent and warlike? if so, you’ll wish for words to match at least all the english words that involve that behavior. if not, you may merely want one word “death” or the like. then, when someone say “he died”, the could say something like “he received death”. killed could be “was settled death”. you experience? the same sageness of description, but it is considerable more awkward to say “john gave bob death by touching him forcefully with a blade,” than it is to principled say “john stabbed bob to extirpation,” or “john killed bob with a knife.”if a subject is cack-handed or difficult to transmit with a language, it conventionally means that, over the evolution of that language, the subject was not encountered often enough to be qualified for more intricate verbiage. so, if you’re creating a language, start with basic, simple, broad, and descriptive words, then think about what topics would be discussed the most by the people speaking your language and whack at to think what words would have evolved to fit the given situation.i recommend the whole world try creating at least a rudimentary language at some point. it give some fabulous insight into not at worst how languages work, but how societies evolved and what things ar …
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