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Communication is vital in passing information (knowledge) from one person to another. This requires not only a command of the native language, but the ability to describe abstract concepts clearly. For example, how would you describe God? No matter what you say, your description would be incomplete.

There is a fundamental problem in communication. Each language can be divided into two classes of words: tangible and intangible. Examples of tangible words are "carrot, table, lamp, horse, cloud", etc. While each person's vision of a tangible item will be somewhat different, everyone understands what you mean when you mention a tangible.

Intangibles cause problems. These are words such as "important, right, wrong, good, bad, love, God", etc. Everyone has his own "definition" for each intangible, and the spread can be quite diverse.

Therefore, in communicating concepts and experiences through language, it is difficult if not impossible to accurately convey your experiences or thoughts to another for the effective transfer of knowledge. The more adept the teller and the listener are at communicating with each other, the more complete the knowledge transfer will be.

The other path to knowledge is experience. This is the most effective way of gaining knowledge, since personal experience is . . .well. . .personal. It happened to you and no one else in the way it happened to you. You will always know your story better than anyone else will. Your story will always mean more to you than it will to anyone else. After all, it's your story.

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Think about it in simple terms. When you meet someone who says they know more than 2 languages, you probably think "They're smart!" or something along those lines. I think language and how we use it is directly related to what we know, how we acquire the knowledge and how we use it.

Some of that boils down to communication. If we can't communicate effectively in our chosen language, we don't spread out knowledge and we don't learn anew because we can't even ask for the knowledge we seek.

Bilingual families always intrigued me for this reason. I've seen one of my best friends speaking fluent 'Spanglish' with her mother because they've lived in America so long the Americanized English we speak tends to rub off. Our slang, our abbreviations.. all of it. I asked her how was it growing up knowing both Spanish and English. She said it was natural and her family uses both because schools, most places in public and most folks you meet on the street speak American English while they have the comfort and fluency to speak native tongue around each other. It seemed win-win.

My next question, naturally was "Does anyone ever look at you funny when you speak Spanish with your family in public," and without missing a beat, she replied that it happens frequently.

Here, in America, we're not the most open minded of cultures and tend to frown upon immigration because of the potential for negative. Without my opinions clouding this answer, I'll say that ignorance and fear of the unknown causes us to stare wide-eyed at fluent speakers of another language. We feel like it should be limited because we feel what we can't understand can't benefit us.

Lets bring this full circle by saying learning that language would open the door for greater communication, in turn, greater possibility for knowledge.

I always figured that the answer to this question (I asked myself this very same thing a few years back) was that knowledge though unemotional itself can be accepted or rejected based solely on how it is presented to us. For example: If I told you that Apple computers didn't use pollutants in their manufacturing process in an unemotional voice or a negative voice you'd think that it was a bad thing or that it was entirely unimportant. But If i go up to you and say the same thing in an excited happy voice you associate Apple with saving the environment

To have others think about your assignments like this is like going to have sex with your clothes on.

Why don't YOU for god's sake think about it? What do you think the whole point is of school?