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If a language dies, does knowledge die with it?
TOK Concepts:
Culture - language is a representation of people and the culture with that people and the distinct and unique emotions and ideals and opinions passed down by that language.
Interpretation - with different interpretations of a language, people will understand the language differently based on their previous, unique, context and rapport of language. (someone who knows swahili will interpret spanish differently from somone who also speaks arabic)
TOK Concepts:
Perspective - each sentence/phrase expressed through any language can be interpreted in many many different ways.
Power - with the ability to communicate and express knowledge, one is granted the power to share/express that knowledge
KC1: When a language dies, the cultual knowledge and interpretation of that language, dies with it.
KC2: when a language dies, the power to understand and know different perspectives, as a form of knowlegde is lost.
Breakdown:
the act of a language dying is when society no long has use for the language and thereby less people speak and utilise the language resulting in the death of it.
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Pros:
- this scene talks about various things, but uses slang and other such language to depict the the sexual intentions and response/conversation regarding the same
talks about feelings, which could be interpreted in various different wants and hence the main character is using her power to communicate her perspective.
Cons:
is a tv show, the language isnt deead yet, they speak in english.
doesnt really explore teh ways in which language is used to exert power and doesn't show what happens if language dies.
context:
fleabag is British comedy-drama television series created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on her one-woman show first. Waller-Bridge stars as the title character, a free-spirited but angry and confused young woman in London. The protagonist frequently breaks the fourth wall to provide exposition, internal monologues, and a running commentary to the audience.
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Cons
since the manusciprt is not yet understood by us, we dont know if the manuscprit speaks about facts or opinions or is the diary of someone or if it means nothing at all and is just gibberish, we dont know what exactly we have lost by not undertsnading its writing.
Context:
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an otherwise unknown writing system, referred to as 'Voynichese'. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century, and stylistic analysis indicates it may have been composed in Italy during the Italian Renaissance. (wikipedia)
