Language

In this lecture we learned about language as a way of knowing.
It started by an uncommon activity, where Mr. Tomalin asked us to guess which language was the one sang in a song he played. He then proceeded to asked as a question that shocked me, "what would happen if we were stripped off any language?". It actually made me think of how important language is. Even if we have corporal and body language, we would not be able to communicate wholly and as clear as we would want to  if we had no idea how to communicate by language. Language is the base of communication for me.

Another very interesting topic Mr. Tomalin mentioned, was the tourette syndrome, a neurophysical problem that happens to people who have suffered a trauma or were just born with it. It consists in basically a tic where people normally curse and release their stress by screaming bad words.

I found it a very interesting and debatable topic, where you can debate how language is actually necessary to transmit a message. As well you could use body language and the other ways of language we have already learned in TOK to transmit a message.