This semester I am taking a linguistic anthropology course. I know I should probably talk more about school since it is such a big part of my life; however, that is beyond the bounds of this blog entry. Back to the story…on one of the first days in class, we were asked how we would go about drawing, “he is not standing next to a giraffe.”
Think about that for a minute.
I have become a fairly decent doodler since joining the ranks of TCU students, so my mind went racing. The only thing I could think of was to draw a stick figure next to a dotted-line giraffe.
The lesson was that we can say so much with words that we cannot communicate any other way.
I am not sure what made me think of this, but I want to send a message out there. Be thankful that we have developed speech over the years since our species appeared on the Earth. Or else, how would we tell the person next to us that they are an albatross trapped in a human body (which, by the way, I am).
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