The Mind of Language

 
Perhaps it is I who thinks that I think therefore I am. If so then Descartes was right. Who knows whether he was being serious, but isn't life in some ways an art of recognition? I hate it when I meet someone I like and I cannot for the life of me remember her name. So imagine meeting yourself one day and not being able to remember your name. It would be quite disorientating. Also, how often have you met someone who doesn't recognise you and you have to start yelling? "I'm Al Flanagan, the guy with the drum, for Pete's sake!"

In grammar, we are called a Noun. A noun identifies everything as objects so that everything has a name. Some things have the same name when they are too alike not to be the same. The plural for name is names.

In the world, there is a lot of movement. Some things just stay still but they change. Some things move a lot but change only little and some things do a lot of both. Without the Verb nothing would move, well, at least in the description. From the scriptures it appears that there is a connection between the word 'verb' and the word 'word'. "First there was the Word." Italian bibles say 'Verbo'. Given that something must make the wheel go around, it might as well be a word.

How we feel is a fusion of sentiments created by the adjective and the adverb. The meaning is clearer like this: ad-jective and ad-verb. 'Ad' was the root word of 'at'. 'Jective', seems short for 'objective. The Latin sense of 'at' touches the object of concern, such that there is a meaning closer to 'of'.

Preposition, written as pre-position, says it goes before the position of something identifying where it is, was, will be or might be.

A sense of something is made by its identification in the full activation of its being, otherwise, it remains incognito, at least in our minds. Italians say ignoto; unrecognised, ignored. Just because we cannot see something, it does not mean perforce that it does not exist. It could well be there. It is just that we do not recognise it.

Seeing, hearing, smelling, thinking, speaking, reading and writing are related events of the same phenomena. That phenomena is perception turning into thought by evoking the mind of language.

 

Roma, 26 4 2008