Good point FlyGuy about the jargon and slang. I wonder what the roots of these things are. Maybe even an attempt to expedite our verbal expression since it is/was slower than our thought process?

On the flip side, I talk very fast at time and often people ask me to slow down. If we could process "faster" then shouldn't they be able to keep up? Or is their mind sort of programmed/stuck in a rut it dug over their living in a certain paced verbal experience?
If the latter, could one train themselves to understand speech at a faster rate? For example slowly increase a recording of speech as practice for understanding at higher rates. hmm.
eggrole1 Reviewed by eggrole1 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