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language and the story teller

Submitted by drichard on Sun, 04/26/2009 - 9:40pm.
On Thursday we spoke about the story teller and its relation to language. We came to the conclusion that the story teller is not dependant on language, but that language was a tool with which the story teller could communicate its output. I think this conclusion is imperative should not be taken lightly. It would be devastating to our story teller if it was language-dependant in the modern world as so much of language is broken. Language is often ambiguous (for example, the word "love." what does love mean? many things). It seems that one of the functions of the story teller is to overcome the ambiguity already inherently present in the world so as to afford us coherent realities. If it was performing this function with an ambiguous tool its work would be rendered useless.

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