Apr 6, 2011

Just Wondering

I have always been intrigued by the origin of communication. I have frequently thought back to that first conversation-like exchange of man, deciding that words, no longer grunts and hand motions would be used for communication. It must have been an excruciating process trying to teach a whole community a consistently spoken language. It is fascinating how countries landed on different systems of dialogue; different languages, different accents, pronounciations, etc. This thought led me to another thought; is there such thing as a natural language? Crying and laughing are two completely pure processes. So, then, is there a natural way of speaking that is unprocessed from the influence of location and learning from repetition of hearing? This is a hard question to ask, because one could never learn to speak without hearing someone else's words, that have technically been processed through location. I thought about singing. Singing is as natural as it gets. According to Wikipedia, "Singing is the act of producing musical  sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm." Have you ever listened to the Spice Girls? The Beatles? (Probably the better reference.) Both of these groups have members with British accents, though when they start to sing that accent disappears. Could this possibly mean that the American accent is the most natural of all? Just a thought...

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