Signs Symbols Stories Language. Winston/Chomsky.( MIT)

I have been pondering lately whether in Sweden, a country that uses a language with 41,000 words, will access to  less words give Swedes more common stories and communicate their shared understanding at a more sub-concious level and more acurately. For instance allowing greater precision than admitted in English speaking nations, where inevitably there is a wider opportunity for misunderstanding  the other persons point of view, either expressed or assumed?

“Whorf himself, and some of his followers, have suggested that we live in a kind of intellectual prison, a prison formed by the structural rules of our language.  I am prepared to accept this metaphor, though I have to add to it that it is an odd prison as we are normally unaware of being imprisoned.  We may become aware of it through culture clash. But then, this very awareness allows us to break the prison. If we try hard enough, we can transcend our prison by studying the new language and by comparing it with our own.”

“Admittedly, the result will be a new prison.  But it will be a much larger and wider prison.  And again, we will not suffer from it.  Or rather, whenever we do suffer from it, we are free to examine it critically, and thus to break out again into a still wider prison.”

“The prisons are the frameworks.  And those who do not like prisons will be opposed to the myth of the framework.  They will welcome a discussion with a partner who comes from another world, from another framework, for it gives them an opportunity to discover their so far unfelt chains, to break these chains, and thus to transcend themselves.  But this breaking of one’s prison is clearly not a matter of routine: it can only be the result of a critical effort and of a creative effort.”

http://leakygrammar.net/2012/07/15/karl-popper-breaking-out-of-the-prison-of-language/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130202092402/http://leakygrammar.net/2012/07/15/karl-popper-breaking-out-of-the-prison-of-language/

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can’t deliver the emotions to your script there’s no point to your story. Story is the key.

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