“Perhaps one did not want to be loved as much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell
Now of course, there isn’t just one language in the world, there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. A language is a flash of the human spirit. It’s a vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world. Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities. Some languages have different sounds,they have different vocabularies,and they also have different structures –very importantly, different structures.
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Poetry expresses meanings, relationships, and underlying truths of reality with a different kind of precision and clarity that science can’t. The language of the world, too, though not always keeping with the same type of unambiguity that science has, nonetheless is rational and consistent, albeit a different kind. It arouses noble sentiments, empowers and inspires the reader, and reaches the deepest roots of human motivation through its appeal to a human being’s innate attraction to beauty. Click the title to see more.
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Day Seven: Ambling through the valleys of Indonesia
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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Day six: Humming along the chants of Peru.
Peru is a megadiverse country that unites multiple people, indigenous tribes, cultural traditions and languages within its borders. Before the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century an assumed 300 to 600 different languages were spoken in the area. Every two weeks, a language is lost forever; Peru is no exception. Forty years ago, half the… Read more
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