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What is at stake when you write?

Writing things down makes them real proposes Andrew Solomon in his
article The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers (A. Solomon, 2015). Indeed,
language is an essential vehicle for materializing abstract ideas into reality. Despite
the man-made status of modern structured language, it is indispensable to our
mental development; it helps us develop our inner voice, which is necessary for our
brains to process information, both internal and external.
Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world
that was no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet
conscious time of nothingness.... Since I had no power of thought, I did not compare
one mental state to another... When I learned the meaning of "I" and "me" and
found that I was something, I began to think. Then consciousness first existed for
me. Thus it was not the sense of touch that brought me knowledge. It was the
awakening of my soul that first rendered my senses their value, their cognizance of
objects, names, qualities, and properties. Thought made me conscious of love, joy,
and all the emotions. Helen Keller
However, trying to limit the infinite vastness of our thoughts into language,
and then the language further into any sort of lasting formal structure may
sometimes place unnecessary limits on our ability to communicate accurately.
Mistakes in communication are still all too commonplace for a skill that humanity
has been honing and perfecting for centuries. Even in the currently existing
vernacular within the already established languages it is known that there are many
words for which the meanings are not necessarily universal. The concepts related to
certain words go beyond the dictionary definition and represent an unlimited and
fluid concept that is perhaps changing even right this moment. This is demonstrated
clearly in Why Using the Dictionary Definition of Racism Just Doesnt Work by Robot
Hugs.
So, what is at stake when you write? Presently, written vernacular is the main
form of durable communication, however it is very limiting. By writing one breathes
reality into the abstract, but also risk distorting or losing key details, a la Lost in
Translation. Still, keep in mind that the knowledge of structured language helps us
develop our inner voice also, which one could say limits our knowledge of the
abstract from the get-go.
In conclusion, this brings us to another question: As our knowledge of
structured languages grow, how much awareness are we losing of the abstract
infinite?

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