no more gaps!
April 10th 2007 08:00
although the korean language sounds as though they are saying ten thousand statements in ten seconds, they are really only talking with the bare bones of communication. however they do have quite a few filler sounds that basically fill the sentence between the words to make a series of statements make sense. an example of their sentence structure - without getting all verb/noun/blah blah blah - would be ' i rice eat', as opposed to the english arrangement of 'i eat rice'. as i study this i always seem to reflect back to my own language and think of how much shit we fill our conversations with.
even trying to communicate with foreigners, i find i have to strip so many words out of the sentence to comprise a coherent statement/question.
'you show me where?'
'we eat now?'
'let us go.'
this would translate into something like this if i was chating back home to someone:
'yeah nah i can't find it eh? can you show us where?'
'i'm starvin'! you wanna go eat somethin' or what?'
'we should hit the frog and toad and make like a tree...'
i am really thinking about this as i communicate each day now. i think it is something that we all take for granted to some degree, and as we go about our day speaking our native toungue, it is easy to not think about what we are actually saying. i think our minds have a tendency to retract into automatic and react with automatic responses that really aren't relative to anything. think about this tomorrow as you communicate all day long, in the many interactions you will have with your friends/family/ associates.
thanks to www.sunlink.ucf.edu for the images.
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Comment by The black man
how we communicate has been a firm interest of mine since I was young, which includes other languages. coming from another country, growing up with a second language and being an anthropologist has had me pondering communication for many years.
I could write so much but I won't. so I'll leave you with this...
verbal communication is the smallest part of communication, our body language is far more honest and the major part of all interactions that are face to face.
this has been my buck-o-five...*sings*cos freedom costs a buck-o-fiiiiive
Comment by Jonathon
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