Language and Her Origins

It is perhaps a dangerous activity in modern times that one engages in, to engender language. But it is just as likely that one might argue the beneficial nature of living dangerously, and so it is not haphazardly that this distinction is made. For what is language exactly, if not a vessel for meaning? A ship with a brimming hull and expanding masts, carrying packets of information between various points of reference, nodes of distribution, and like a ship; with each wave, with every ebb and flow in time does she encroach with an effervescent foaming of novelty at her hull as she voyages, upon ever fresh berths. Language is, in all her beauty and forms, the great bearer of our wayward dreams and ideas; Our aspirations and the means by which we achieve them. It is certainly appropriate here, to say that language demonstrates many distinct and culturally historic "effeminate" properties (such as "weaving a tale," or "giving berth/birth.")But where does the language come from? From which corners of the carbon based -life supporting sphere (as it has thus far seeming) we find ourselves to in-habit, does language weave her fibrous tendrils throughout the spaces that lay between lung and ear, fragrance and smell, touch and feel? And furthermore, why is she here? There is a great deal of speculation about these; from theories of gestural response and obligatory reciprocation of altruism, to Dean Falk's 'putting the baby down' theory, anthropologists, sociologists and linguists alike have been taking proverbial stabs at the issue, often with scarcely more agreement now than a hundred years ago, when Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection provoked a rash of armchair speculation on the topic. There is much to be desired in the way of a well corresponded and modern conversation about the topic of the details of Languages' origin, however if we'd wish to make any progress here in terms of deliberation, one might think well to gaze to the first, ever patient and consistent teacher of human-kind; Nature.

Nature's Nature

"Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and that state of the mind can only be described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems as if the history of mankind's own nature could be chalked up to a sort of dialectical game or play with, or perhaps within the embrace of nature. As if reality itself may simply be a formality, beckoning humankind as both autonomous individuals and as a collective, to evermore take part in the literary exercise of expression more literally. It is a difficult thing, for humans to work hard, and this is ever more so true for the activities we know as play, and reflect. For it is in our nature to play, as it is to work or reflect, and for the sake of all these activities perhaps it is helpful to "loosen our ties" as it were: Perhaps in the interest of effective play, work, and reflection, it would serve well to draw our distinctions of meaning in language from what can be re-purposed , rather than as strict signification of purposefully intended meaning (after all, this is a foundational rule for natural sustainability,) as ideas are proportionally useful to their ability to spark new ideas.In other words: It is not untrue to say that language has rules, and it is equally so that all rules have exceptions (including this one.) Any sufficiently curious and mischievous schoolchild of aspired self agency ought to like to know; Who/what exactly, thought that they/it might decree some rule over the dominion of life and human behavior? Which would by abductive reasoning (A sort of toroidal case of Post hoc ergo propter hoc) inevitably lead to the answer of "it is the nature of things," and thereafter warrant a further inquiry into what exactly the nature of things is. Is nature a uterine input system of awareness to humans' a priori? Or is it the vast bodies of land and water that are composite of the spherical Terra commonly known as 'Earth?'Perhaps it is neither. Perhaps nature is no( )thing, but a behavior. Perhaps it would have been better should this scribbling have been called "The Posture of Language," although both titles undoubtedly entail similar processes (if not describe the same process altogether.) It is a point here as good as any here to note;That the greatest contribution one can make to language is the creation of a word (here meaning as a 'vessel' of meaning), and this may be true, given the exception to the rule that; No word created ought to ever be a definitive addition to the Oxford dictionary, as it is congenitally superfluous, not to mention a terribly mundane cover to cover read (as is the case with definition one of "Nature" in the Oxford Dictionary, in particular regard to nature as opposition to humans or human creations.) Language always pushing to be nomadic, the nature of nature is rather; the behavior of behavior.

The Natural Posture of Language

Let it be henceforth be opportune thought that the natural posture of language shall entail and be henceforth obligated to either legitimacy or litigatory process in any case, except in the case where total flexibility of parity in opportunistic forms of imagination is the cultural norm. If the normalicy of a culture entails a nomadic posture in its natural language, then the behaviors of that cultures participating members could be imagined to be flexible enough to assume such postures that its language(s) might be capable of evolving constantly based on the environmental constraints experienced in such a culture in increasingly symbiotic forms. If humanoids insist upon language maintaining an upright posture, it will also be well understood; If the nature of language is as Emerson had suggested, in the service of mankind, it could be of great interest to engage ones natural environment in an increasingly mutually beneficial way.Such is an increasingly important issue in regard to organisms with languages that are increasingly capable of great diversity in terms of environmental adaptability, and verging upon cyborganismically capable information transfer.In short, the posterity of language can only be known through the possibilities in the posture of language.