![]() It was interesting to see the contrast with other “languages” like “bee language”.Īnother 1920s definition by Edward Sapir goes like this: They are:Ģ) Broadcast transmission and directional receptionģ) Rapid fading (and, Rapid firing too, in my view!)Īlthough looking at them as single words might make this look like a bunch of contradicting features, the explanations on the Wiki page (atleast to me), made things clearer. Okay, now, only human, spoken language satisfies all the 13 features. On arriving at his wiki page, I was surprised, amused and whatever…seeing those 13 design features for a language. I was reading the preface of a Linguistics Intro book and found a mention of Charles Hockett’s definition. Now, I began fooling around with this aim to know the answer for “What is language?”. I tried with Korada Mahadeva Sastri’s book on Telugu grammar (Which was written for German learners of Telugu!), and gave up on the grounds that native speakers should not learn from such books written for foreigners ). ![]() By some “divine” intervention, I decided to know more about Linguistics, Language, Grammar etc in the past few weeks. ![]()
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