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Language
is a parasite that we've adapted to, not something that was there originally for our genes, on this view.
Neither the question nor the answer are new in the Spanish
language.
They have been bouncing around from century to century since 1492, when in the first grammar guide of the Spanish language, Antonio de Nebrija, set a clear and simple principle for our spelling: "... thus, we have to write words as we pronounce them, and pronounce words as we write them."
It is, because the Spanish language, in contrast to English, French or others, always strongly resisted writing words too differently to how we pronounce them.
It was the etymological approach, the one that says we have to write words according to how they were written in their original language, in Latin, in Greek.
But unlike in other aspects of
language
such as punctuation, in spelling, there's no individual expression involved.
Wouldn't it be more sensible to simplify the current rules so that all the time we devote today to teaching spelling, we could devote to other
language
issues whose complexities do, in fact, deserve the time and effort?
Language
is a tool of common usage, and so I believe it's fundamental that we use it following common criteria.
But I also find it fundamental that those common criteria be as simple as possible, especially because if we simplify our spelling, we're not leveling it down; when spelling is simplified, the quality of the
language
doesn't suffer at all.
But we shouldn't forget that throughout the history of our language, it has always been teachers or people involved in the early learning of
language
who promoted spelling reforms, who realized that in our spelling there was often an obstacle to the transmission of knowledge.
In our case, for example, Sarmiento, together with Andrés Bello, spearheaded the biggest spelling reform to take place in the Spanish language: the mid-19th century Chilean reform.
The Royal Spanish Academy, all of
language
academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that
language
is linked to history, tradition and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history, tradition and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.
This is true only for some levels of
language.
Our
language
has homonyms, words with more than one meaning, yet we don't confuse the "banco" where we sit with the "banco" where we deposit money, or the "traje" that we wear with the things we "trajimos."
I'm convinced that if we do that in the humble but extremely important realm of language, we'll be leaving a better future to the next generations.
Now, there's no reason why a network, a studio or a production company cannot adopt the same contractual
language
in their negotiation processes.
CA: There's a Facebook question here that connects to this, from someone around the world in a
language
that I cannot read.
It went into Time magazine in 2001 as the new
language
of the 21st century.
The young men never used that
language.
The English
language
is a magnificent sponge.
I love the English
language.
And the whole mission of the project is to find holes in the
language
of emotion and try to fill them so that we have a way of talking about all those human peccadilloes and quirks of the human condition that we all feel but may not think to talk about because we don't have the words to do it.
Because I think that's a lot of how we look at
language.
CA: So you would say this is a trap that liberals have fallen into by celebrating causes they really believe in, often expressed through the
language
of "political correctness."
But I do think if you're living in Minnesota or Iowa or Arizona, the coastal elites make themselves aware to you, so you know that
language
as well, but it's not the reverse.
I believe her
language
and her style communicated that she didn't believe she had much value to offer.
We didn't know each other, but we decided to run a very radical experiment, starting a communication using only data, no other language, and we opted for using no technology whatsoever to share our data.
Even the
language
we use in talking about marriage and relationships illustrates this.
The
language
of marriage is often the
language
of ownership rather than the
language
of partnership.
Option number three was based actually on
language.
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