Meanings are Created

[WokeBloke]

Spoken words are essentially sounds with meaning. Written words are symbols with meaning. Meaning in reference to words means what information is gathered or understood by the hearer/seer of the word. 

So, every word has a meaning. When you see these words they elicit a very particular experience for you. 

 

Now imagine you are making a new language based on an entirely new set of words.

You can easily construct a new random sound and try this for yourself and see how word meaning is constructed.

Lets make a word spelled omonkan. Now associate this word with a certain object in your field of vision. Perhaps a pencil or something. You now call your pencil an omonkan. From this point forward if you were to continue creating your language omonkan would now have a very specific meaning to you. You have just constructed meaning. 

 

So, this process is something you have been doing since people started teaching you language. Other people taught you the meaning of words but now you can see how ultimately you were the one who accepted these meanings and you are the one who updates your meaning of words as you gather more information about the world. 

 

I am not saying there is anything wrong with meanings whatsoever. If words didn't have meaning you wouldn't be able to understand this post. I am simply saying all meanings are created. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Inception]

Symbols represent something they themselves aren’t. So meaning essentially amounts to symbolism and representation?

• Omonkan (symbol) means (represents) pencil (object)

• Smile (symbol) means (represents) friendliness (object)

• Money (symbol) means (represents) happiness (object)

Crazy how we can get so caught up in symbolism, that we sometimes mistake the map for the territory.