Matt Smanski: The Face that launched a million Smiles
This is a blog that was created to express the different types of languages and how they affect people. It is for a class at the UW-Parkside campus and will be featuring YouTube clips, etc.
Enjoy your stay!!
Enjoy your stay!!
Blog Archive
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Development of Human Language & Communication With Others
This guy kind of argues what many believe communication to be, he argued that it is not a written language, but a language mixed of sounds and emotions. The speaker is Jacque Fresco, and he is speaking to it seems a very small group of people. He talks about how language was not invented to communicate, it is the sounds we make during certain events, such as if we bang our elbows, see a lion and call it "boo boo" or whatever. He says that we cannot sit and reason with each other, and used the example "If a black man went to a KKK meeting, he could not sit down and reason with them, it's impossible."
He says language is "the sounds we make in relation to new events". And he talks about different cultures and how they've been using "languages" that were used thousands of years ago.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Cosmopolitanism
In this video clip, Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about the whole idea of Cosmopolitanism. He discusses how we have a duty to care for the world and not just for ourselves. We have the possibility to have a language and communication with billions of people, and how we are responsible for people who are all around the world. " 'cosmo' means citizens of the cosmos, of the world, we are citizens of the world." If you are not like us, we do not have to accept you, we will accept who you are if you are the same way that we are and not different in any other way.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)