Fiction rewards us by laying to rest one raging controversy at least; is it real? In fact, it's by definition all fake news-fake news that reveals larger worlds of truth and meaning!
You suggested that we may create our own subcategories of human language. I love how this invites one to create their own plate. I also love how what one finds perhaps sports-analytical, another may perceive as spiritual or inspirational. And so I wonder what would a linguistic fabric of society look like?
Oh, Berhan, I'm loving your last question. Which means I'm already trying to imagine what the answers to it might be, and what forms they might take. Thank you! One of the nice things about language is that everyone has it. I haven't known how to talk about/ "label" "tribe" language--in my case, that might mean Yiddish, or certain sentence structures or expressions. Oy! That's a lot to think about!
I have felt this imbalance acutely since November — or before. I love the image of how we fill our language plates. Novels have been my way since I retired, as a way to correct an imbalance overindulging in technical and scientific language — but I may use your post as a nudge toward more poetry. I do love the way its language grabs so precisely — yet ambiguously. That’s a trick!
I agree, Lois--that it is a trick. But one of the things I've been musing on since I wrote this post is the best way to access poetry without its 24-hour availability making it too overwhelming on some level. Curation is a nice thing, and I love how the teacher in my class has deliberately chosen some poems so we don't have to contend with "every poem." I think the popularity of some of those poem-a-day emails is that they keep our poetry dose manageably small, but also constant: if one day's poem doesn't engage us, the next day's might. Which doesn't mean we need to resolve the ambiguity. Maybe we can just enjoy it, marvel at it, wonder at it.
Fiction rewards us by laying to rest one raging controversy at least; is it real? In fact, it's by definition all fake news-fake news that reveals larger worlds of truth and meaning!
"Reveals larger worlds of truth and meaning"--yes! Here's to clear definitions of different kinds of truth!
You’ve provided food for thought and brought a smile to my face this morning, Joan. Thank you!
I'm glad I made you smile, Kristen; thank you for letting me know.
You suggested that we may create our own subcategories of human language. I love how this invites one to create their own plate. I also love how what one finds perhaps sports-analytical, another may perceive as spiritual or inspirational. And so I wonder what would a linguistic fabric of society look like?
Oh, Berhan, I'm loving your last question. Which means I'm already trying to imagine what the answers to it might be, and what forms they might take. Thank you! One of the nice things about language is that everyone has it. I haven't known how to talk about/ "label" "tribe" language--in my case, that might mean Yiddish, or certain sentence structures or expressions. Oy! That's a lot to think about!
I have felt this imbalance acutely since November — or before. I love the image of how we fill our language plates. Novels have been my way since I retired, as a way to correct an imbalance overindulging in technical and scientific language — but I may use your post as a nudge toward more poetry. I do love the way its language grabs so precisely — yet ambiguously. That’s a trick!
I agree, Lois--that it is a trick. But one of the things I've been musing on since I wrote this post is the best way to access poetry without its 24-hour availability making it too overwhelming on some level. Curation is a nice thing, and I love how the teacher in my class has deliberately chosen some poems so we don't have to contend with "every poem." I think the popularity of some of those poem-a-day emails is that they keep our poetry dose manageably small, but also constant: if one day's poem doesn't engage us, the next day's might. Which doesn't mean we need to resolve the ambiguity. Maybe we can just enjoy it, marvel at it, wonder at it.