L – Language

When I made my list of A to Z Challenge topics, I came up with things that I could largely remember, knew what I would or could talk about, and that would all be nicely thematic. However, while it’s a nice sounding topic, I cannot for the life of me remember what I was going to write about Language.

I could talk from the philosophical standpoint. About how, without language, how do we think? What do we think? What is it like? Just images? What do words “sound” like to a deaf person? Something that we will likely never be able to explain, constrained as we are by language.

There’s something often talked about – the constraints of language. About how there’s only so much we can describe with it. But how do you tell me what Red looks like? Or for that matter, what a Wine tastes like, though to be fair, those two could really just go together…

But what about the freeing aspects of language? How much more we CAN say because of it, rather than the difficult areas we lack sufficient synaesthesia to explain?

I think this calls for a reader-driven topic for the day. What are some of your favorite uses of language? Let me know in the comments section down below! I think I am going to change up my plans for tomorrow and talk about mine.