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What is your definition of "word" and how does this relate to the thinking process?
We are all communicating using words. How do you define "Word". Does this definition affect your understanding of the communication that words provide? Do words mean the same thing to all of us? How effective do you think words are at transferring the meaning in the speakers mind to the mind of the listener?
4 Answers
- Coop 366Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
A word has a taught meaning, your dialect and culture define it. You place a group nine year old in the woods, return in twenty years and you will find they have developed their own language. They will have used words learned at nine in a total different contexts. To us it is wrong but to them it is normal.
A friend and I were talking, born just twenty miles apart you think words would be used the same. We were of two different races and we used one word, to each had a different meaning. The word was "Burn", to him it was I would cook him a meal but to me I would destroy the food?
- doclakewriteLv 78 years ago
A culmination of letters that form a thought. This "word" will provide information about all kinds of things .
Words will resonate with some and be negative to others, it is all in the perception.
No one thinks the same thing at the same time, but if you can prompt a mind to think maybe they will come up with the same thoughts about a word.
