Saturday, September 10, 2011

Discussion 4-Sara Bugler

Language is used to shape the world we know as soon as we are born. We use words to describe the world around us. Our history may change the meaning of a word as time goes by. At times we also inherit language from other cultures. With everything that goes on from war, to disasters, hunger, and even the evolution of facebook we adapt words to fit into our understanding. For instance the word Jihad is meant to be a holy or moral struggle that stresses the non-militant sense of the word, while Western cultures now assimilate it with holy war and terrorism.
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  1. saSeptember 11, 2011 at 11:20 AM

    I agree when you said that our evolution helps change and makes words for own culture. I also think of holy war when I hear the word jihad. That the first thing that comes to mind.

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  2. Dawn DSeptember 11, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    You are absolutely correct we do inherit languages from other cultures. Its unfortunate that it takes something such as a disaster to happen for that to take place. We can't control how we are raised or the languages we are brought up on. In the end we are all still the same. Language is everything and as you said we even adapt words on FB.

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