In grammar, inflection or inflexion is the modification of a word to express different grammatical categories such as tense, grammatical mood, grammatical voice, aspect, person, number, gender and case. Conjugation is the inflection of verbs; declension is the inflection of nouns, adjectives and pronouns.
Acquiring a language as part of childhood development is an amazing feat yet one that almost all children learn at a very young age then the remaining school years teach the proper use of that language, its grammar, spelling, and vocabulary.
English is said to be a very difficult language. TalMK has members whose native language is not English and yet they have communication competency and are able to speak and write English as well as other languages .... being bi-lingual or multi-lingual is becoming more common in America especially true for those now in kindergarten.
One does not have to master any given language before learning foreign languages.... I didn't. I still lack English language skills, but I did study the Russian and Chinese languages... Computer programming requires learning languages for that occupation.
Silent nonverbal communication is yet another language skill. Language is a concept? Language is an idea and reflects the culture and customs of people who crafted their language. What do you think is the language of the future? What is the philosophy of it? Who will attempt to control it? The computer is transitioning us to a new non-personal and safer way of interfacing with one another via the various social media choices and transacting business. The visceral physical self is not present in communication with others .... less chance of infection? less need for language inflection? The interactive, integrated computer/communications/mass media now as one new direction defining language of the future?
A picture is a fact.
Ludwig Wittgenstein ........ and that is a fact!
Ludwig Wittgenstein ........ and that is a fact!
As indicated early by Charles Darwin, languages behave and change very much like living species. They display high diversity, differentiate in space and time, emerge and disappear. ....... The similarities between observed and predicted patterns indicate that an ecological theory of language is emerging, supporting (on a quantitative basis) its ecological nature, although key differences are also present.
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