Characteristics of Language
Okay this is important. This comes phrased in all sorts of strange ways but basically every year it comes. So know this shit. Language is Human - It is only spoken/written/used by humans for communication. The parrot doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't listen to him. Language is verbal - it doesn't matter whether it's written or oral...words are still involved. Arbitrary - there is no fixed association between the words in a language and the objects or ideas it signifies or represents. Objects have different words in different languages. (book, libre, livre all mean well...book, they all mean the same thing but they are different words.) Similarly the same word can have different meanings in different languages (fag in American slang is a derogatory term for a homosexual, in British slang it means a cigarette.) Systematic - language is rule...