Unfinished Language

You wonder What to make of it I've thought about this for years and years and years and I don't know why there should be an invisible syntactical intelligence Giving language lessons in hyperspace That certainly, consistently seems to be what is happening I've thought a lot about language As a result of that First of all, it is the most remarkable thing we do Chomsky shows The deep structure of language is under genetic control But that's like the assembly language level Local expressions of languagе are epigenеtic It seems to me that language Is some kind of enterprise of human beings That is not Finished It seems to me that language Is some kind of enterprise of human beings That is not Finished We have now left the grunts And the digs of the elbow somewhat in the dust But the most articulate, brilliantly pronounced And projected English or French or German or Chinese Is still a poor carrier of our intent A very limited bandwidth For the intense compression of data That we are trying to put across to each other Intense compression Intense compression Intense compression of data of data It occurs to me, the ratios of the senses The ratio between the eye and the ear, and so forth This also is not genetically fixed There are ear cultures And there are eye cultures Print cultures And electronic cultures So, it may be that our perfection and our completion Lies in the perfection and completion of the word It seems to me that language Is some kind of enterprise of human beings That is not Finished It seems to me that language Is some kind of enterprise of human beings That is not Finished Again, this curious theme of the word And its effort to concretize itself A language that you can see Is far less ambiguous than a language that you hear If I read the paragraph of Proust Then we could spend the rest of the afternoon discussing What did he mean? But if we look at a piece of sculpture by Henry Moore We can discuss, what did he mean But at a certain level, there is a kind of shared bedrock That isn't in the Proust passage We each stop at a different level with the textual passage With the three-dimensional object We all sort of start from the same place And then work out our interpretations Is it a nude, is it an animal? Is it bronze, is it wood? Is it poignant, is it comical? So forth and so on It seems to me that language Is some kind of enterprise of human beings That is not Finished It seems to me that language Is some kind of enterprise of human beings That is not Finished It is the most remarkable thing we do Thing we do, thing we do It is the most remarkable thing we do You wonder what to make of it It is the most remarkable thing we do Thing we do, thing we do It is the most remarkable thing we do You wonder what to make of it