Wednesday, December 17, 2008

What we label

So I learned this past semester in Oral Communications 101 that we place meanings not in the words we speak, but the people, and the characters that make up the word. A is not "a" in greek. It's something entirely different that they would not understand. Just like the word "shalom" to most people in America means...well nothing. Gibberish to be exact. But in the Hebrew language it means "peace", but it also can be used with greetings, and good byes.

So I'm sitting here doing the basics on my guitar because it will eventually lead to me being a better guitarist as I try to finish writing a song. The same rule that I just explained in the above paragraph section A, applies to song writing. But instead of meaning, because only one third of the world knows what a G# sounds like, meaning of the word, we put meaning to the volume and tone. When you hear two chords clashing together we pull the word "ouch" out of our heads, and we cover our ears. So in essence, guitars are just like people. They speak just as much as people do, only with a limited vocabulary. To be honest, I don't know were I am going with this, but more or less that I'm going with this.

So we label people with meanings, and now sound with meanings. Yet I still think this is not entirely true. In fact to be honest, I could be completely wrong about this whole blog and everyone who is reading this, I just might have wasted your time. In fact I'm actually confused about this as well. I'm to tired to think right now to be honest.

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