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[quote:Chromatophore:MV81MTcyNzExXzk2NDEyMDk5X0ZFQzZGNjQ5] It is said, A group of two or more is perceived as being set apart from other things. One cannot think of language without words. Buildings without civilizations. Time without periods. With language, many without knowing it will fit foreign words into the constructions, or patterns of his native tongue rendering thoughts unintelligible. This is why many say to master a foreign culture is to master its patterns and isolates and sets. Collecting sets is easy. To decipher pattern is difficult. Sets are the first thing people observe. Sets are unlimited. The vocabulary of a culture is devoted to sets. Culture shows what is valued. High developed technical vocabulary shows and reflects technical culture. In Japan, emotion and feeling is ranked very high, with logic ranking very low. Americans is reversed. Same sets classification is classified differently depending on where one is within. This gives the illusion that we are learning something different. In English, nouns are not classified as to sex. Arabic, they are. English is to classify inanimate and animate which brings in animal and vegetable classifications. A trobriand islander conceives vegetables as being like animals as they have the ability to migrate outside of the garden. English also has mass and non mass. The various states of active and passive cause confusion depending on culture as well. English speakers go out into the rain. Arab speakers go under the rain. -the silent language info on the pervasive set. [/quote]
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