Words

[Buffalo Souljah]

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without words. But in this hour of Radiolab, we try to do just that. We speak to a woman who taught a 27-year-old man the first words of his life, and we hear a firsthand account of what it feels like to have the language center of your brain wiped out by a stroke. Plus: a group of children invent an entirely new language in Nicaragua in the 1970s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0HfwkArpvU&feature=player_embedded
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2010/08/09/words/

[leftace53]

Language is a big thing in philosophy these days (or so I hear), and for good reason. When you really think about it, words are weird. They are made up of noises we deem appropriate and assign these noises values for something. Its become such a necessity to have a language and to be able to converse thoroughly in it. While language has come to be thought as sophisticated and freeing to the point of civilization, its really quite confining in itself. Deconstructionism started the end of language, but even then, people like Derrida, used language to deconstruct language, and really, how far can we go with that?

This seems pretty cool what radiolab is doing, trying to figure shit out without words.