https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=17 Panjab: Journeys Through Fault Lines Wed, 24 Sep 2014 01:19:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=17#comment-4 Aman Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:42:45 +0000 http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=17#comment-4 I wonder why we assume English is parenthetical. The term sounds like it is a chip on the shoulder. Maybe it is, maybe someone actually sat and figured how how the langauges will work and made one to encapsulate ideas in words and others decided that is not the function of language, at least their language. But I suspect the creation was more gradual and evolutionary. Sorry, missed the second comment completely. Am too dumb, please explain. I wonder why we assume English is parenthetical. The term sounds like it is a chip on the shoulder. Maybe it is, maybe someone actually sat and figured how how the langauges will work and made one to encapsulate ideas in words and others decided that is not the function of language, at least their language. But I suspect the creation was more gradual and evolutionary. Sorry, missed the second comment completely. Am too dumb, please explain.

]]> https://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=17#comment-3 M Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:29:34 +0000 http://www.amandeepsandhu.com/?p=17#comment-3 Interesting extrapolations. Just a thought: maybe English is 'parenthetical' in some way because it seeks to encapsulate ideas in words. Also, maybe this sense of semantics can be countered by the visual element in writing? Interesting extrapolations. Just a thought: maybe English is ‘parenthetical’ in some way because it seeks to encapsulate ideas in words. Also, maybe this sense of semantics can be countered by the visual element in writing?

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