I read the other night about syntax and what it is. basically it is our grammer and stucture of our language. but the reason i bring this up is because tghe book also sighted upon how language links us. but language is also limited. sure it allows us to comminicate and pass information from one person to another but it is not... complete. let's say fro example a person feels a certain way about another person or has a problem with a that person. If the person feeling that way does not know the right words our how to combine other words to convey that feeling the certain person or others will never accurately know how the person with the feeling feels.
or in the example of the problem. if the person DOES NOT or again lacks ability to describe what the problem is and how he/ she does not like or how she/ he would like it to change then the problem is impossible to mend or change.
This two examples pose two major issues in our society. Lack of vocabular knowledge and commiunication failure. Look at texting and online chat. it is so fast that people become lazy at talking to others. vocabularies deminish and feelings that are supposed to be conveyed are not. plan and simple we as a group of maturing people are killing our syntax. we are becoming (in terms of language) simplistic, that is in america. Me personally I love in person discussions and on the phone chats. it allows for a broadening vocabulary and MORE INFORMATION to be communicated between two people in a FAST and EFFICIENT manner.
the one thing i find interesting about our decline in language is what the book first mentions in the thinking and language chapter. People are and always will be able to commiunicate the GIST of whatever they want or need to. Babies do this when they are learning to speak. I find this interesting but also ironically hilarious that as a technologically 'advanced' nation we are becoming no more than infants in terms of merely talking and that is all because of online and texting. all because of our 'being advanced technologically.'
and yes i know this is quite an extreme we as a people are not that bad, yet. I am merely looking ahead a grteat deal and using a hyperbole to demonstrate a possibilty. my point: I really don't think of our communication skills as that bad and i know they are not but hey who knows what the future will hold
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I agree with David on the fact that sometimes it is hard for people to communicate with each other. It is also especially hard to know exactly how a person is feeling when talking to them online. You dont quite know that way they are saying some things, which can change the whole tone of the conversation. I have had conversatinons online where someone may send something to you joking around but you take it the wrong way and think that are mad and you and this causes a whole bunch of unneeded miscommunication that can get pretty messy.
ReplyDeletelet me just say that this was incredibly difficult to read. You had way too many spelling, gramatical, and sentence structure errors. BUT In all honesty, you kind of went off on a tangent. I dont know if i'm agreeing or disagreeing with you because if this was in person, i would have no problem stopping you and making you explain mid way through, which we both know happens a lot. However when you say that texting and chatting online makes communication less readily available I think that you're wrong. Because it's a lot easier for people to say what they want and what they feel over a text because you dont have to see that person's reaction, whether it be good or bad. It's easy to speak your mind when you're talking to a computer screen, so in that sense I think you're wrong.
ReplyDeleteI think that technology increases the ability to communicate because of how easy it is. That's the reason companies can so easily work with companies in japan, lets say. video chat makes communication cheap and ESPECIALLY more efficient. whether you like it or not, technology is the way of the present and the future. If you hate it and don't want to use it... then good luck getting a job when you finally get out of college. You have no choice. You can't change it. Why fight it? why get worked up over something that's a good thing. something that helps you. Something that YOU appreciate and YOU utilize david.
As for the lack of vocabulary knowledge in this generation, that's a personal choice that both child and parent take responsibility for. Anyone can find a dictionary or a thesaurus to expand their knowledge. It's the parents fault for not stimulating the mind with vocabulary that the child doesn't know in order to expand their childs knowledge. That has nothing to do with technology. If anything, technology would make that information more readily available for a parent to have access to on the internet (technology) to teach their child. But they just don't. Not technology's fault, Parents fault. Plain and simple. (by the way, you totally used illusionary correlation by linking vocab with technology :) )
hahaha grace it is rediculous how well you prove my point and if you can't see that than well ph you prove my point again
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