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Saturday, July 17, 2010
English serves many roles. It is the first language of majority of Western nations, as well as second language to many else. It provides a comfortable mode of information transfer for those who are well-versed with it. However, in this information transfer, it relies on two points, Communication and Perception. As a mode of communcation, English has gained much reliance and become perhaps the most powerful language in the world. From the way I learnt it, English served by being my first language, and I never got a chance to appreciate my Mother Tongue, Chinese. Resulting from my background and home support of a strong English-speaking mother, I learnt to phrase my sentences just by reading it once or twice in my mind. This has caused some problems for me in terms of vocabulary, but I am proud to be well-versed with the language. It has indeed allowed me to communicate with my western friends, even if my command of English is imperfect. After all, if they understand what I'm trying to say, the way I phrase it doesn't matter. Communication can be made in many forms, but it only serves to provide a mode of "transport" for information to be "sent" to receiving party. Perception, however lies in the minds of both the speaker and the audience. Are you mentally reading this blog entry aloud in English, or perhaps aloud literally? Or have you ever had the experience of listening to someone speaking in a different language, and processing the information if your mind in English? That is perception from the audience's position. The ability to influence this alternative thinking in the audience is also known as perception, in the speaker's point of view. Intricate as it seems, it is perhaps the simplest forgotten systems ever created to make our lives easier! English therefore plays a major role as the "transport" of information, but we should never forget that in every transportation system, it relies greatly on the sender and the receiver to makes the transfer successful.
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