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What Is Language?
Communication
not only for communication, but connects concepts in the human mind
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developed by the slow, common acceptance of ideas in order to communicate
Jener
Humans use language for many different things. One of those things is spreading information. We use language to communicate with other human beings. There are many other animals that use language in this way, but humans have the most developed form of language (that we know of).
We also use language to convey feelings. Humans have evolved enough to be able to use language to tell and express to others, how we feel.
One last way we use language is in our minds. We use it to connect and understand what is happening around us. In the radio lab, they interviewed a neurologist who had a seizure. What had happened was the left side of her brain, or the section that works with language, basically shut down. As a result, she described the experience as peaceful. She no longer felt stressed, and no longer heard that small voice you hear in your head when you're thinking. That voice is another form of language that we use. But it isn't used to communicate with others. It's used to communicate with ourselves.
Another form of language that we use is spacial language. We use language in order to remember where an object is, relative to another object, just like the rat experiment that was talked about in the radio lab.
Alex Horowitz
Language is a tool for people to convey a given message of assistance, need of assistance, or a search for greater companionship.
Language is a way for people of different or similar backgrounds to share experiences or otherwise interact.
Language doesn't have to be portrayed through verbal interaction, and language can be learned not only as a common gift from a parent to their child, but it can be taught even at a very late age from a complete stranger.
There is no one central language, and a language can differ on everything from grammar, to punctuation and even to the way a sentence is built.
julia
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Shakespeare stuff
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he connected words in a way that no one ever had before, like eye and ball to make eyeball
he also invented/began the use of the un prefix along with many other prefixes/that thing thats like a prefix but for the end
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Devan Tatlow
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Language changes the way your brain function, allowing you to think in different ways with the new connections.
once people are able to create relationships between things with language they can think in those new ways
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Language is a system of sounds which correspond to information that can be used to transmit information.
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Daphne Frick
the voices in our head
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The voice in our head speaks to us on the language we know but as explained in the radio lab "Words" people who don't know language have a blank mind.
Language is compiled of many words that represent concepts so when someone doesn't understand the concept of words there can only be a longing for something or a feeling that can't be expressed through words
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The Radio Lab "Words" also explains the story of someone who had a stroke and the part of their brain that processes language was cut off
The stroke survivor said that they felt peaceful and they felt as if their mind was blank and there was no consciousness telling them what to do and when to do it
The lady also said she couldn't make connection between two things she could just picture one thing at a time for example a president was just a male silhouette and she couldn't make the connection of a president to the modern day leader or any leader.
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Emnet Dagnachew
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Language is the way you communicate, convey, and show your thoughts, messages etc
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One example is the women who had an seizure. When this took place she said that her brain was completely silent and that inner voice disappeared.
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