Quote Originally Posted by psteve
Hogwash.
Look at cultures with simpler languages. Or look at people who use only sign language (a much less linear form of communication, with far fewer rules and constraints).
Do their ideas surpass those developed in English?... No.
Are they technologically and culturally superior to the 'spoken' world?... No.
This theory just doesn't work in real life.

If you do look at sign language its as complex as any other language. Children who are born deaf, if placed together, will create their own form of sign language, developing syntaxt and grammer equally fast as children born with the ability to hear. Where do you get this idea of fewer rules? and why do you think speakers of english follow them? sure maybe in formal writing, but the vast majority of the time we use slang, jargon, and incomplete sentences.
FlyGuyOU Reviewed by FlyGuyOU on . Is your language holding you back???? Jacque Derrida says we create a prison with our language. He calls this prison the "Western Metaphysic" or 'phono-logocentrism' "The problem is, he says, is that we in the West are trapped by the voice. Trapped by our alphabetic writing which follows the voice. The voice is linear, in his view: there is only one thing happening at a time, a sequence of phonemes. On a larger scale, the unidimensional march of the voice is replicated in our linear view of history, what Derrida calls 'the epic Rating: 5