Impossible language

Impossible language For communication, memory and mutual understanding we need a good language. To create a good language is impossible. Many have tried. We should be humble talking about language. It is a difficult subject. The need for precision is great but how to achieve it? According to Wittgenstein there is no absolute truth in ordinary, spoken language. Absolute truth is only found in mathematics and other symbolic languages. So ordinary language is only relatively true and false. Every sentence could be analysed and measured, for example 55 per cent true, 45 per cent false. Do we have a systematic, accepted method for assessing truth in ordinary language? No. When we ourselves talk, we want to give the impression we say the truth and nothing but. It is not correct, because it is so difficult to approach truth, If we assume we have a good language, we fall in a trap immediately. Language and content are closely linked but not the same. Language can give a kind of false legitimacy to content, as we see in many critical comments on the Internet. The individuals attacked are usually not quite that bad as you would guess from the language used. Racism is when we classify an individual just for belonging to a group. Racism is very popular for the present level of brain. Racism is by definition bad as language and as description of a reality. Another problem is the belief in a static reality. Reality is not static. It is like the molecules in the ocean. They change all the time. We need a dynamic language, but we dream about a constant one. Language is the central machinery of our intellectual reality. As long as it is biased and irregular, language is in a hopeless state,