Thursday, February 25, 2010

Emotion


Love and hate are the only emotions i can add to the six listed in the question, but in a way love and hate can be combinations of the six. i think that trust could also be an emotion because when you truly trust someone you feel something so that could mean it is an emotion. all the other emotions can be the combinations of these six but not all the time. Some emotions can be the opposite of these emotions such as happiness and unhappiness. not all people would agree with the fact that every other emotion is the combination of these " primary emotions" because different people feel emotions differently. For example, some people can say how they feel when they're in love and others cant. i agree that these are the primary emotions but up to a certain extent. sure other emotions could be combinations of these primary emotions but they also might not be. they could be close to a combination of the primary emotions but not an exact combination, point being that everyone feels according to how they've been raised or the type of people they grew up with, so they might have different combinations of these primary emotions or none at all.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Language has rules but we break them all the time

Every language has its own rules that form the basis for that language, but we break them all the time. I find it interesting that the rules for a language arent broken a lot of the time when we are writing formal essays or letters at school. Rules are broken when freedom is allowed and we have the most freedom when we're speaking. language has been constantly changing as generations go on. Shakespeare broke the rules of the english language and many years later the rules of language were broken through slang. Now, we break rules almost every time we talk to each other and this can be linked to our previous blog about how language creates ideas. when language creates ideas, some of the ideas created might need to break the rules of the language. i think that everyone who is able to speak, breaks the rule of the language they are speaking almost every time and even though there are rules for that language, we break them as we create new ideas that evolve the language.

Language does not just say ideas, it creates ideas

Language isn't merely a mean of communication, its a method of communication that evolves as it creates ideas for its users. as we grow to understand language clearly we increase our creativity therefore enabling us to create new ideas. we use language to express and explain our ideas to others that do not understand them but i think as you learn a language you understand more enabling your mind to be creative. creativity according to wikipedia is defined as a mental process involving the discovery of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the existing ideas or concepts, fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. so, language doesn't only give us the ability to say ideas but by understanding it we are able to create new ideas as well.