#Whatislanguageanyway

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What is language? 1.1

The most simple definition of language is the following:

Language in general is more or less a complex form of communication in the form of signs, which together form a system. In other words, the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.

But what is language? and why is it there? here are some thoughts on that:

“English is a funny language; that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.”  ~Author Unknown

“Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.”  ~Aldous Huxley

″Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.”  ~Peter Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions, 1900

Personally I believe that each of these quotes contain a small piece of the truth. Independently they might not make any sense, but when you put them together you can see the link that they share and hopefully understand what they mean.

These quotes were copied from: http://www.quotegarden.com/language.htmlÂ

For more quotes on Language, feel free to go to:

http://thinkexist.com/quotations/language