Wednesday, January 14, 2009

what's the relationship between language and how you peceive the world?

I like to visualize what I see and what I know about the world, and I think the relationship between languages and visualization is that they have adverse effects to each other that describe in different perspectives.
Languages can detailed describe what you want to explain. People can point out one thing explicitly by languages, and then can use words to describe this thing. In the case of illustration, people usually write down a paper in mechanical way, which can illustrate clearly.
Compared to languages, visualization is a way that is difficult to describe a specific thing, but give you a whole scene, so that people can consider a question or a issue completely. To me, it is faster to receive information by visualizing a picture than writing down few sentences.

There is another idea about languages and visualization. I consider them as a sort of media that help information stay in human's brain, and languages is more moden than visualization. Just like trade in economics, at the beginning people trade by substantial goods, and then developed money as universal equivalent, using it to trade products. Same thing, before languages invented, people record information by picture, which is what they see and imagine, then they found out it is more convenient to communicate if all of stuffs are recognized in the same sounds and writing, so languages came out.

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