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Language vs tonguage

By In Words

When we say tongue

When we talk of tongue, we talk of mother tongue (langue maternelle in French and Muttersprache in German, to name two tongues other than English).

Although fathers also come equipped with tongues, I’ve never heard of a father tongue. Have you?

Mother tongue is okay but mother langue doesn’t exist. That’s because langue is French for tongue and 475 years ago, when modern English was invented, langue didn’t get translated from French to English.
Why is that? Your guess is as good as mine.

Had langue been translated from French to English, we would now say tonguage when we say language. Not only that, but it would also come with the added benefit of knowing what we’re talking about.

But given l’m all alone, I’m not even thinking of turning back the clock all by myself for that would achieve nothing but make me a 2025 version of Don Quixote.
All I’m trying to make sure is knowing what we’re talking about.

Language

Though language ought to be tonguage (see above), it’s now understood to be a means of communication that may, or may not, include words.

Wordless means of communication are also known as  non-verbal or void of words. Wordless communication include body language (facial expression, gesture, eye contact, posture, touch, appearance), sign language, flags, morse, light, color, and sound, to name a few.

Communication void of words has been practiced for billions of years between the sun and everything else in the universe — the planets, stars, and moons, to name a few. Also between the fire, air, earth, and the water, between the plants and the animals, between the mushrooms and the trees, and the list goes on.

Only between the word-users is wordful communication practiced, but only since the invention of words 13,750 years ago when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.

Takeaway

Word and language are different for a reason.
Anyone claiming word and language are the same doesn’t know the first thing about either.
On that I give you my word.

“To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense. To say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language vs tonguage

Language vs tonguage

When we say tongue

When we talk of tongue, we talk of mother tongue (langue maternelle in French and Muttersprache in German, to name two tongues other than English).

Although fathers also come equipped with tongues, I’ve never heard of a father tongue. Have you?

Mother tongue is okay but mother langue doesn’t exist. That’s because langue is French for tongue and 475 years ago, when modern English was invented, langue didn’t get translated from French to English.
Why is that? Your guess is as good as mine.

Had langue been translated from French to English, we would now say tonguage when we say language. Not only that, but it would also come with the added benefit of knowing what we’re talking about.

But given l’m all alone, I’m not even thinking of turning back the clock all by myself for that would achieve nothing but make me a 2025 version of Don Quixote.
But I’m not Don Quixote. All I’m trying to do in 2025 is make sure word-users know what they’re talking about.

Language

Though language ought to be tonguage (see above), it’s now understood to be a means of communication that may, or may not, include words.

Wordless means of communication are also known as  non-verbal or void of words. Wordless communication include body language (facial expression, gesture, eye contact, posture, touch, appearance), sign language, flags, morse, light, color, and sound, to name a few.

Communication void of words has been practiced for billions of years between the sun and everything else in the universe — the planets, stars, and moons, to name a few. Also between the fire, air, earth, and the water, between the plants and the animals, between the mushrooms and the trees, and the list goes on.

Only between the word-users is wordful communication practiced, but only since the invention of words 13,750 years ago when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice.

Takeaway

Word and language are different for a reason.
Anyone claiming word and language are the same doesn’t know the first thing about either.
On that I give you my word.

“To say of two things that they are identical is nonsense. To say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein

If we don’t know words

By In Words

If we don’t know words

  • We don’t know what we are, what we do, and what we have.
  • We don’t know there’s a difference between the three.
  • We don’t know what our ancestors, parents, sisters, and brothers are, do, and have.
  • We don’t know what words do to us. Therefore we cannot have any empathy for what words do to our children regardless of gender.
  • We don’t see words for what they are. Therefore we don’t know everything we know is a word.
  • We don’t hear words for what they are. Therefore we don’t know everything we have a word for is a word.
  • We don’t know the story of words either. Therefore we don’t know how it all began.
  • You don’t know the story of words. Therefore you don’t know how you began either.

See the difference knowing words will make once the story of words is told at schools throughout the lands?

If we don’t know words

If we don’t know words

  • We don’t know what we are, what we do, and what we have.
  • We don’t know there’s a difference between the three.
  • We don’t know what our ancestors, parents, sisters, and brothers are, do, and have.
  • We don’t know what words do to us. Therefore we cannot have any empathy for what words do to our children regardless of gender.
  • We don’t see words for what they are. Therefore we don’t know everything we know is a word.
  • We don’t hear words for what they are. Therefore we don’t know everything we have a word for is a word.
  • We don’t know the story of words either. Therefore we don’t know how it all began.
  • You don’t know the story of words. Therefore you don’t know how you began either.

See the difference knowing words will make once the story of words is told at schools throughout the lands?

If we don’t know words

If we don’t know words

  • We don’t know what we are, what we do, and what we have.
  • We don’t know there’s a difference between the three.
  • We don’t know what our ancestors, parents, sisters, and brothers are, do, and have.
  • We don’t know what words do to us. Therefore we cannot have empathy for what words do to our children regardless of gender.
  • We don’t see words for what they are. Therefore we don’t know everything we know is a word.
  • We don’t hear words for what they are. Therefore we don’t know everything we have a word for is a word.
  • We don’t know the story of words either. Therefore we don’t know how it all began.
  • You don’t know the story of words. Therefore you don’t know how you began either.

See the difference knowing words will make once the story of words is told at schools throughout the lands?

Stored words

By In Words, You

The telling of stored words, also known as stories told by storytellers, lead to a payoff that never changes which is for the story to be believed.

For many unbelievable stories, to be believed is easily done because most word-users don’t care whether a story genuinely happened or not. The only thing that matters to them is the story is true. Take, for example, the stories of Santa Claus, James Bond, or gods of different names, to name a few.

Fact, what stories to believe (or not) is a question of age, character, and personal experience, to each their own. Therefore, the stories of Santa Claus, James Bond, or gods of different names might be believed at certain times but not at others.

Things have changed

Stories used to be told by word-users to word-users. But nowadays, stories are told by machines to word-users. Machines of course don’t have a clue if a story happened or not. It couldn’t care less. To the machine, all that counts is the words are stored.

Among the stories that never happened for self-evident reasons is the story of how it all began, which makes it the most successful lie ever told.

But when told by a machine to word-users, many of the latter believe the story of how it all began genuinely happened no matter what.

Takeaway

Whether a story happened or not, that story will hold you back or push you forward whether you like it or not.

Stored words

Stored words

The telling of stored words, also known as stories told by storytellers, lead to a payoff that never changes which is for the story to be believed.

For many unbelievable stories, to be believed is easily done because most word-users don’t care whether a story genuinely happened or not. The only thing that matters to them is the story is true. Take, for example, the stories of Santa Claus, James Bond, or gods of different names, to name a few.

Fact, what stories to believe (or not) is a question of age, character, and personal experience, to each their own. Therefore, the stories of Santa Claus, James Bond, or gods of different names might be believed at certain times but not at others.

Things have changed

Stories used to be told by word-users to word-users. But nowadays, stories are told by machines to word-users. Machines of course don’t have a clue if a story happened or not. It couldn’t care less. To the machine, all that counts is the words are stored.

Among the stories that never happened for self-evident reasons is the story of how it all began, which makes it the most successful lie ever told.

But when told by a machine to word-users, many of the latter believe the story of how it all began genuinely happened no matter what.

Takeaway

Whether a story happened or not, that story will hold you back or push you forward whether you like it or not.

Every word-user you think is lucky

By In Words, You

Word-users you think are lucky are lucky because…

  • They keep their word.
  • They focus on the now.
  • They begin with the end in mind.
  • They are patient.
  • They have a “Study-to-Action Ratio” (SRA) below 10 (more about that in a forthcoming post).

Nobody is an overnight sensation.
No-one scores a lucky goal because they are lucky
It doesn’t exist.

Here’s what it usually is…

  • Consistent effort over time.
  • Willingness to take action.
  • Fighting through setbacks.

I’ve seen it here on LinkedIn.

Lucky word-users:

  • Post regularly.
  • Engage with their network.
  • Share their expertise consistently.
  • Know they are a miracle themselves (or they wouldn’t be here).
  • Believe in miracles.
  • Move from learning to action fast.
  • Listen instead of be listened to, understand rather than be understood, give instead of be given, help rather than be helped.

And suddenly everyone’s talking about how they hacked it to the top.

Don’t believe the lies.

Remember your luck is guaranteed if you do the above.