This is a response to Sarah Dion's blog in which she asks the question, Is it possible that language is shaping our view of the world? Or could we just be shaping language?
In all honesty I believe we are just shaping language. Language, as time goes on, is getting worse. As I have stated in many blogs past, humans are creatures of conveninence. To many people it is easier to talk in slang and in ebonics and so language (good grammer) as we know it is declining. It is easier to slur words together and shorten them because saying things properly takes too much effort. You know what else takes a lot of effort? Saying positive things or even finding the positive. It is easy to see and put forth negative things, it is easy to complain and talk about thing that haven't gone your way and it is even easy to put someone down and talk crap. It does, however, take effort to not gossip, not talk about someone behind their back, etc and due to this things just go south. I know the question didn't give off a negative context, but hey it's just easier to explain it this way. Many people have a negative world view and I do believe in someway that the negative world view that people have are connected to their negative attitudes and negative language. So in some way our language shapes our view of the world but we are doing it indirectly. We are shaping language which affects how we act in the world, which gives out a particular understanding/perception of the world.
With that said, Why is it that we are so fond of instant gratification and convenience?
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